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Project Inspire Toronto Rosh Hashana Lecture 2015
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thank you so much for coming out tonight
before rashash Shana we know it's a very
busy
time and it's a
tremendous that we have tonight RAB Loi
the mastra of the aura and RAB AF alio
Shapiro marad dasra in North Miami Beach
and this event tonight is presented by
project Inspire as many of you are aware
project Inspire came on the scene about
8 years ago and has been a
Trailblazer in promoting AK and caring
about CL Isel for everybody that bar in
Toronto when we talk about akas and Claw
Israel you just look at your neighbor on
your right and the left and often times
we don't have to go beyond that I feel
like when project Inspire does their
events in Brooklyn so people need
detectives to go find people who don't
look exactly like them bar over here we
have many
opportunities and that's really the
reason why we decided to sponsor this
event tonight is because we have rashash
Shana coming up and sukus and then we
have shab project so it's incredible
opportunity to really reach out to think
beyond what we're doing today and think
about who we could affect tomorrow so
that's uh from the project Inspire I'd
like to introduce now Mr Stuart
heightman Mr Hyman has really been the
driving force behind project Inspire
International and he's a tremendous
tremendous osin in this community very
involved with many
mm and it's my pleasure to call upon Mr
Heyman to address
us I want to welcome everyone tonight to
this very important evening on in terms
of what we want to accomplish for
project Inspire in Toronto you know for
me personally it is a tremendous braa to
be involved with an organization like
project inspire
and tonight I just want to tell you I
want to communicate to you just two
really short
messages now the first
one as good as the kiru organizations
are out there as great a job as they do
they need the from Community to
accomplish their goal in a complete way
we have to understand this
they just don't they do great work
they're MRA vien they bring them closer
to Torah they they don't have the
Manpower that the firm Community is they
need us and we have to understand that
we are required for them to have their
ultimate success in their in their
job and that's what some of the things
that we're trying to accomplish here
with project Inspire we have as we had
Rabbi La irons who works for ncsy and
Torah high and we brought them on with
project Inspire as well and one of our
strategies is to network between the
Cure of organizations and the fir
community and create those relationships
that's a key strategy of what we're
trying to accomplish they have all the
database they have the people who
they're working with and we have we are
the Manpower and we have to understand
they need us we have an we have an
essential and critical role to play
here that's the first
point the second point I want to make is
if you ask any Bal
Chua on when they were on their pathway
to become
from ask them did they have a from
person who was their anchor who was
their person that they would go to for
questions who was their person they
leaned on when they needed something who
they went to for shabas most of the
times do me a favor do this survey ask
around any balua and they will tell you
all the same answer they all had that
one from person that one from family
that was their anchor in their Pathway
to Yiddish Kai to Tor and
Mitzvah
so ladies and gentlemen do you
understand what I'm saying
here there is no balua out there who
does not have a person like this that
means that each one of us if we have a
uh two 300 people here today 300 people
go out of this evening and commit I am
going to be the anchor for another yid
out there that's 300 from
yiden that's 300 Bal Chua you don't have
to be the one of course they're going to
go to other reain they're going to go to
k of organizations they're going to go
to different people as well but you can
be that one rung on their ladder you can
be that anchor for
them and you should understand that that
is critical every every Bal Chua has had
a relationship like that ask them I'm
sure there's some Bal Chua here tonight
ask them tonight if you know one ask
them I had one ask anyone so you should
gain you should take that get from it
and know that you can make a difference
you can have that impact if everyone
comes out of tonight and we're going to
tell you a few things that we're
planning for the coming year and for
Tish Reay but if you go out of tonight
making that commitment you can change
somebody's
life and that's what we're trying to
accomplish
here those are the two short
messages so I'll just continue by saying
I have the exclus of uh introducing
M loita the of a Toronto who you should
know is also a pillar for kiru in this
city that all he has a a close
relationship with all of the C of
organizations and they come to him for
different
Asos and he has been there so we should
uh again it's our honor to hear d hisus
andik uh for upcoming to Russ
good the and thank you Mr
heightman and thank you project
Inspire Mr Hyman was speaking about
kiru I think project Inspire is if we
get inspired
ourself we would automatically Inspire
others if yish kite is alive by us if
yish is not something we do from
road yish is something we live
yish will
automatically be people who look at us
and learn from us we want to help
others today in this week's para we
have and the Z
says that's
R we're all standing few days
before we all went through a whole year
all kind of things happened during the
year personal thing public things colol
things we want this year to be a good
year we want to be inscribed in
the want it to be a year of
life we have to show that we're living
hidden I'll read to you something that I
saw today
From
perspective G and convert we we have we
give always they have to answer a lot of
questions to know about yish kite so
question 12 is what is the greatest
challenge for Judaism give reasons to
support your
opinion he
writes and the greatest challenge
therein lies in bringing and making
Torah literally Fe feel like life that a
soul will feel alive in the service of
God which is a major
challenge people need to taste Hashem to
feel his presence to learn about
Hashem as priority of education then
naturally they'll want to do more
Mitzvah God
willing says even those who are
from I hope to bring TM back to all
those Souls even those Souls are from
from where formally from but I want them
to live
life says T has to be living with
t t should be
something that you
feel shab should
be talk for our own children if children
come home and shabas is a beautiful
chabas meal shabas when they see the
parents love shabas and don't dread
shabas and look forward to
shabas we find the last weeks par
the the whole rebuke that the Torah
gives and everything that
happens because you didn't
serve and everyone questions because of
that you have the whole
happen and the answer is
if you're not happy with Ty you're not
really serving
Hashem if you do mitzvas
begrudgingly and and you do Mitzvah
haphazardly you D haphazardly you don't
really feel you're talking to
hasem and you don't really know that
you're living
Aid taste the love of T taste the love
of Hashem be close to Hashem and that's
the purpose ofus and that's the purpose
of Ellen that's the purpose
of it's days where comes close to us and
he's waiting for us to come close to him
he's waiting for us come near to me come
closer to
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me is waiting to show that we really
care about him we don't do mitzvas
because we have to do mitzvas we we do
mitzvas because we choose to do Mitzvah
in this week's Parish the end of the
parish
it says hem says I gave
you gave you life and death
and choose life choose T don't do T
because it's forced on you realize how
beautiful to look how beautiful it is
and live like that and then it will
affect your children affect your friends
will affect your family the child
sees how how happy you are with your tah
how you you're living with t and when
you come to the shabas you sing and you
and you you you and the Kad of the
shabas the the shabas and the Holiness
of the shabas it automatically affects
everybody around soem like brings down
like the brings down with
hisus give us days of reflection days to
to wake up from our Slumber wake up from
our sleep
and for not be so involved in our mained
life and know there's a higher purpose
in life and the higher purpose is to be
close to Hashem the higher purpose is to
we ever Hashem to serve Hashem be
somebody who who really loves
hem and you feel the love to
hasem you love and everyone has in his
heart to love hem just have to open up
your heart and that's what is all about
and that's these days before are days
where we have to bring alive to us
something that we live with we're happy
with t happy with run to do aah and run
to want to do a Mitzvah I remember
my he used to it says in you should run
to go D you should run it's a mitzvah
it's a MIT to run to
go and when as the last years of his
life he only lived on a quarter of his
heart and he couldn't love run from his
house to the so his Ritson used to bring
him to a few a few feet in front of this
so be bble to get out of the car he ran
into the you run run to do a Mitzvah you
want to be alive with a Mitzvah then it
will also be an impression on others
then others will also feel like you and
know and live with the
Mitzvah but then there's another
responsibility is it enough only I
should be happy with
Mitzvah what happens with all the
children
of who don't know better who no one ever
taught him anything we're all
responsible for every in the in the
world this week's par the r bring down
that what's the New Covenant that we
have in the
we had already Covenant in last week's
para bris they said the New Covenant is
the
arus take responsibility on every person
in the world take responsibility to help
another yid take responsibility to bring
another y closer to hasem a person who
goes around and is satisfied only with
himself is not loving Hashem these are
hashem's children hashem's children are
lost
they're
lost i s like a like a lamb that's lost
so the of one said why does it say like
a lost lamb said if if a object is lost
you have to go find it if a
living object is lost it also goes try
to find its owner the lamb is running
one way and the owner is running the
other way
we to e see a person who swayed and is
not far from Hashem but he's looking for
Hashem he's searching for hem and we ask
Hashem to come and bring us back and
Hashem gives a duty for every yid go
help
another go try to show another year how
beautiful Torah is go if you really love
me go and if you really love me says if
you really care about me care about my
children how could you live next to a
person who blatantly doesn't do the
Mitzvah and you know you could make a
difference in that person's life people
always say no they're scared to to speak
to others scared to try to influence
others there's a
story most you heard of him after the
war he brought hundreds of people
thousands of people back to
yish and when he passed away in
1994 a woman came into the rabbitson
sitting shiver with the children and she
had a bag in her
hand and they asked her what her name is
and the the name didn't ring any Bell
they said she said I came here for one
reason the only reason I'm from is
because of this B
bag I said what is she opened up the bag
and took out a pair of white
socks she says after the war and she was
walking in in in in
fenel where the was and two girls were
walking without socks on their
feet the CL walked over to them in a
nice way he said sh you know girls
shouldn't walk around like this they
started crying Reb you want us to put on
socks we don't have any bread to
eat we you're asking us to wear socks so
the rebba sat down there middle of the
street and took off his white socks that
he was wearing and gave it to me to wear
and these socks stayed with me my whole
life and here she brought the bag of
socks and brought it back to the family
this is what gave me my spiritual life
this is what brought my life back
sometimes a small thing you do for
another person a small thing you do for
for another yid you you and you care
about another you care you know hesitate
you I tell her to wear socks not tell
her to wear socks but you say it in a
nice way and it stays an impression
because of that this woman raised
families and families of from
children and just imagine the when goes
in
sh when he went to shim the thousands of
and thousands of children and
grandchildren and great grandchildren
that because of of his little
actions the same time there's another
story that happened also in Aran Kipper
the same year in
1945 the Clos was sitting read preparing
for
kidre and there was a knock on the door
a soft knock on the door he goes opens
the door and there's a 17-year-old girl
standing there crying
she says I'm left alone every araban
Kipper my father used to bench me my
mother used to bench me there's nobody
here to bench me now rebba what should I
do and here you know the holy rebba the
rebba says come here the reab took a
handkerchief and put it over her
head and put his hand on the and benched
her like a father would bench the
daughter he says my daughter you're my
daughter and I'm benching you she went
out all a few minutes later another
knock came on the door another girl
heard what happened to the first girl
she also came said Reb you have to bench
me also I also have no parents 87 girls
came in to get bench from the
rebba and just imagine how many families
came from those 87 girls how many
families came caring about another
individual feeling for another
individual doing for another
individual you know we talking about the
shabas project last year we all know in
the community how many people were
influenced by the shabas project shabas
project
in there's a
beautiful and the the zor says when AB
abam
heard that Lo was captured so the zor
says it's an anal it's a mush to
thear he heard that people were caught
by thear so he went to go save the
people and he went to make him and and
ran till done to to save them from thear
says what's the reward for a person who
who helps another person come back
to what's the
reward so the says maled is the
Mal Mal who sits by the gate ofed
of
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the he says when these who helped other
people come from who helped other people
in from doesn't even mean someone that's
completely not from if you help someone
who who swayed away a little you bring
him back a little help people come back
to the Rine
so the says the goes to those people and
brings out says come
come you are the peace you brought to
the
world truma
says that if anyone would ever
know it is to go help other people come
back to they would run for it like they
run for life you're looking to be signed
in the safer of life
you want to find life find another y
that you could help a yid that fell away
or Y that never knew
anything find them and you'll find life
you run like you would run for life and
and that's the Mitzvah the Mitzvah is
there's brings also that there there's a
Bas that goes out as praiseworthy is the
person who goes who learns to and runs
and helps other keep mitzvah even
sometimes there's some pain with it I'll
continue reading from this person what
he
wrote I believe the greatest challenge
of Judaism is to figure out a way to
connect those Jews who have no
connection to their father in Heaven
back to hasem here this is where com is
writing unfortunately many reject Torah
not out out of knowing what Torah is but
the false Notions and Mis perceptions
that they accumulated through various
misunderstandings we need to find a way
to understand the needs of the
generation to speak of a Torah in their
language that can enter their hearts
most secular Jews will not respond to
rebuke they do not know Torah as as so
what is the point of rebuke
unfortunately a lot of Orthodox world is
inaccessible and intimidating for the
secular with the exception of some Cur
of organizations and that's what project
inspires here to
every one of us is a cir it's not only
the cir of organizations that have to do
cir the responsibility is on every
person and the zor brings down that
someone who was able to be is not it
says what the punishment is if you could
go it says brings down when we come
to and you come and askm to forgive you
to help
you says what did you do for other
people and if somebody is says that
someone be you could have stopped him
from sinning and you didn't stop him
it's considered like you sinned it's
considered like you had that sin if you
were able to stop a yid from doing
something and you didn't because you
know you didn't want them to look think
that you you're prizing that should you
want don't to think that you are you're
bothering them and you could have
stopped them you could have bring a
person bring a person closer remember
one year at the good
convention they had a person person who
became about get up and he said you know
if somebody would have when when I
wasn't from somebody would just come
over one time and show me how beautiful
it is people are scared that the
religious people ran away from me like
I'd be something contaminated they
didn't want to talk to me talk to her
not show remember as a child we grew up
we had a
neighbor that wasn't keeping to MIT my
parents used to my parents Europe
weren't into K but the heart they invite
these people who lived on the floor next
door they invited them
to they invited them to bench es and for
years and years later what what they
remembered about it how beautiful it was
that they were invited to come and see
auk I remember there was one year where
started that that should be sent to
neighbors he said he used to walk from
his house to to B to the school every
day and he saw all those doors with muas
and so far from he said just sendas to
one neighbor we
sentus to a neighbor two doors away she
came running back she didn't seeus for
years and she sent us Backus and every
reawaken the y in the person
reawakened something in the other person
if you care
about you care about his children and
and and if you don't care about this
children means you don't really care
about if you really
love you know and you know that you care
about him how could I help your children
how could I do something for your
children there's a mus that they give
there's a a child that was going on
camping and going so and the father told
him we'll come in this town I have a
very close friend over there and go to
them and if you anything you need you'll
get there this child was robbed he was
left without anything on him and he
comes to that little town and he goes to
his father's friend he knocks on the
door he says could you please give me a
piece of bread I have nothing nothing
says what are you bothering me go away
go away says my father told me to
come you make me crazy what do you want
from me here I'm busy now go away come
back another
time and this child went from house to
house till he was able to get something
to mooch things to to be able to to have
some food until he got back some money
to come back home and he came back home
and he told his father you wouldn't
believe what happened I was completely
downtrod I had nothing nothing I went to
the person's house and he didn't want to
do anything for
me few months later that person in that
small town needed a favor he needed his
friend in this big city to to do
something something for him he comes to
his friend and he says you know I'm
really I'm going bankrupt I need someone
to to to bail me out help me out and he
looks at him he says do you know who I
am he says sure you we're good friends
are we really good friends what happened
when my son came to your house did you
do anything for him and he started
crying I didn't realize I didn't realize
when we come
to and as help me
says am I really your friend are you
really my friend what did you do for my
children they're are lost they're going
around down TR they have nothing in life
do you do anything for them your next
door neighbor who doesn't know anything
about chavas your friend that went off
the D did you do anything to help them
do you do anything for them what do we
answer
to I'm a descendant of the king of
Poland for one day there was the king of
Poland his name was sha V
he became he was king of Poland for one
day my mother's family's name used to be
V they changed it afterwards and drag
descendants so we have royal blood from
the Polish Dynasty besides D the yish
dynasty but so how did chal become king
of
Poland because the prince was
lost and came to the town where Sho
lived and and no one helped him cuz he
didn't no one believe he's really the
prince he went around and he came to
shal's home shal said what can I do for
you he didn't care does he look like the
prince does he not look like he helped
him later on when sh came to to the
capital and he and the King son the
prince said you know that person he is
the one who saved my life without him I
wouldn't have been here so when the king
died and there was a big question who
should be the next king
the prince said I want shal to be the
king but he wasn't he didn't have Polish
blood but he became king and that day
that he became king he changed all the
decrees that were against yiden he tore
up all the decrees against yiden if you
help the King's
son the king will help you if we help's
children we scream a Our Father you're
our King do we really believe he's our
father do we really believe that what do
we do to his children
and that's we have to go out of our way
to do things and caring about our
children show them how beautiful yish is
it's sure like we said there sometimes
it's hard somebody
yesterday came to ask me they have
guests for
shabas and they found out that the
guests don't really keep
shabas and they don't even make bras out
of their house and they said they feel
maybe they shouldn't invite them anymore
I said what do you mean you shouldn't
invite them so when I
invited guests to their home did he look
check if they're keeping shabas did he
check if they make bras he made bras
with them but they're faking they come
look but you never know you your MIT is
bring him into your home bring him into
your home bring him into your home and
show him how beautiful yish is show him
you never know what it does and just for
the Mitzvah of caring of's children take
my children in
says should help we're all asking should
have a good we all waiting for mesia
we're all waiting for the G to gather
all the scattered in the world we have
to show that we gather the scattered we
have to
show that we care and sent down in this
generation a few great
people and he sent
down who understood what it means to
inspire he said he know he said if every
yid would just get one every from would
get one more from one y to become from
just imagine the revolution of yish K in
the world just imagine what would happen
there would be a big
Revolution coming back to
the and be the biggest movement the
biggest movement is every takes upon
himself when he leaves here Tak I'll try
to have one family one person that I
could speak to to to do
one that will help that we should all be
to be written the in a good
life thank you very much Loi I feel like
I follow RAB Loi around because bar he
married somebody from Detroit and I'm
from Detroit and then I I moved here and
my Shar is very close to the RV so he's
always been an incredible support to
everybody who's in cure of so I just
want to give you a quick perspective
before I introduce Rabbi Shapiro that I
work I say I don't talk to anybody who's
from my entire day other than with
project Inspire they tried to change it
but uh by and large I deal with people
who are you know don't necessarily look
exactly like all of us and it's pretty
incredible I had over a family who's
totally secular the father told me he's
an existentialist Jew I said what does
that mean he said well we shouldn't eat
seafish or shellfish because they gather
all these microorganisms from the ground
and you know uh it's nice to have family
dinner because it's good for you and I'm
very I told my kids that they must must
marry a and none of them listened to me
and I made a mistake I didn't marry a
Jew and they didn't either I
said and then he tells me that his
daughter got very inspired on one of our
Israel trips and they wanted to bring
her a treat but they realized Lobster is
not Kosher but they said they won't tell
her it's what it really is she'll never
know so she comes home and she's very
inspired and they serve her the lobster
she says what is it Lobster and she says
wait one second they gave me a book of
br let me look it up and she starts
leaving she said I can't find the bran
Lobster you know but uh it's amazing and
these people were willing to come over
for shabas and that's what and they own
a store that many firm people go to but
I don't think anybody ever invited them
and it's really incredible that if we
just think who we could have I'll tell
you a quick story I was a counselor in
Camp Simka and I had a camper Brian who
since has passed away unfortunately and
he lived three blocks away from my house
in Detroit and I was away in ER I called
my mother up I said could you please
give Brian M said fine she comes home I
call her back half an hour later and she
says you gave me the wrong address I
said what do you mean he says well there
was an exus wreath on the door there
were lights up it's the wrong I said no
that's the
house she goes back she gives it to them
there were two dogs and a cat a huge TV
she was shaken up she's like Al mama and
this family had no Shas after he passed
away about 2 weeks later the owner of of
the local Judea store called my mother
and said do you know this family came
into my Judea store and they decided to
buy a Misa they were so touched by the
way these Yesa bam came to help them in
the last moments of Brian's life that
they decided to do something more and we
never know how we could touch
everybody so I just wanted to share with
you to introduce uh Dr liby Weiss Dr
liby Weiss sent me an email today how he
decided to
challenge many people on his block to
give out an easy Outreach gift we're
selling them if you want for $6 or $5.99
actually but we don't give change so $6
outside so I highly recommend that you
uh go out and get some and there's a
fellow over here in our front row Andrew
who he didn't buy them he decided his
wife was baking gifts or Honey Cakes so
he said why bake one honey cake bake
seven obviously and give them all out
but he didn't want to knock on doors so
he hung them up outside people's doors
and then they came up back and they
started giving him gifts in return so
it's actually worthwhile because if
you're looking for any gifts at this
time of year you could start giving out
your own gifts so just quickly just uh
wanted to thank before I introduce Dr
Weiss Rabbi Samson who came in special
from New York Rabbi Samson whenever
anybody asked me is Project Inspire for
real like what do they really do so I
say you have to meet Rabbi Samson
because there's a man who has with so
much passion and he's convinced that we
are going to change the world and I'm
also convinced and the truth is I think
there are many more women here than men
and I've told people we don't even need
the men because there's somebody who
used to who I used to work with who I've
been in touch with maybe some of you
know her Mrs Adena rudinsky don't tell
her that I mentioned her name her bisit
her and she decided for the shabas
project she's going to invite everybody
on her block for shabas so she told her
parents told some others right got some
other families involved and she put out
an invitation every door and there
became a whole fight with people on the
Block that they were upset that they
weren't invited so they said next year M
but it was a beautiful suda and there
are many many somebody just told me he
hosted a big party on his block for St
for nonform people just to engage them
so it's something everybody could do and
you don't have to wait for your parents
or anybody else just tell them you want
to invite people and do
it you didn't hear that from me but I
definitely recommend it one final thing
before call up um Dr Weiss is I really
want to thank Torah masora Dr Mar Marvin
Sigler because they have an event
tonight and we promised them that we're
going to try to end at a reasonable time
so people can make it to R bear R beer
has spoken many many times for project
Inspire and I know Dr uh Mr Sigler is
also bringing in Rabbi cron through Kim
that's after uh right before yum Kipper
which I highly recommend to go he also
speaks all the time for project and fire
everybody's into the mission the
question is how to do it so hopefully
you'll figure that out tonight from Dr
we um so Rabbi iron asked me just to
speak for a few minutes to tell you why
I feel so strongly about this and why I
challenge my friends and bribe them to
to call people over so there there's
really two reasons one is that I'm I'm
sort of like a cure of addict because
once you make somebody from it's kind of
like making a if you've ever made a you
have this enor sense of from the couple
and then when they have children you
feel like they're your own when you make
somebody from and and I'll I'll qualify
that statement because you don't have to
make them from you just have to give
them the opportunity when somebody
becomes from because you're their friend
you have enormous NAS from it and I do
it I I would love to say that I do it
for all of the the lofty reasons that
we've heard about and and they're all
they're all true but but there are very
few things that you'll get as much
satisfaction out of as the continued Nas
that you have from a from family so so
I'll tell you about one situation that
happened and actually robeli was a part
of it robeli gave me a book called Jews
for nothing many years ago Jews for
nothing and I never I actually gave you
back a different one I had to buy it on
eBay because the guy I gave it to that
sub subsequently became firm because of
it didn't give it back to me and I
didn't want to ask for it so I had to go
on eBay and buy this book for many many
times more than it was worth CU cuz um
maybe it was out of print and I gave it
back to you many many years later but he
kept it and he's now from he has a from
family and and I I just have NAS from
him and and it's funny because he
started going to
adaf and he was giving he was going to
this Shear in a certain sh and I got a
mailing from the sh because they were
having a raffle and I it was a random
sort of mailing I'm not normally on
their list which is I guess in itself
surprising but I wasn't and I said to my
wife you know what I'm going to buy
tickets and she says you have nothing to
do with them and I said I do that guy
goes there and I'm so proud of him I'm
going to buy a a ticket because I want
to support the sh and I won the tickets
to Israel so so that was uh that was
excellent um so so one of the reasons I
do it is because it just feels good when
you when you make somebody from you have
and and that itself is a you know reason
enough there is another reason I do it
and that is for my parents my parents
Alam were both Holocaust Survivors they
both they both went through aitz and my
mother said to me um that she says to me
liby you know we lost a lot but in the
end I won because she thank God had
three from
children but globally we're losing we're
losing to assimilation we're losing to
intermarriage we're losing to apathy and
I think we're losing to
affluence um and I think that probably
the first three have a lot to do with
affluence do you know in in Israel what
the biggest travel days are of the whole
year where you can hardly get a room in
a European Resort Russia
Shana they travel because they don't
know any better in in Israel the Jews
are going to Europe Europe on rashishana
we have people down our block my wife
has been dropping into them forever she
a number of years ago she invited them
for rashishana sorry Disney World
they're not home they're leaving on
rashash
Shana so if we don't do it nobody's
going to do it so I do it because it
feels good and I do it because my mother
my mother in her own family won thank
God but but globally we're losing and
and I feel like I have to I have to make
her win I have to make all the people
went through the Holocaust and we lost 6
million nishas we have to we have to
fight God will help us but we have to do
our part where it leads you know that's
up to
Shay um I made a comment so those are
the two reasons why I do it I just want
to make one comment sometimes we talk
about making people from you know my
friends say to me well how do you make
somebody from you don't have to make
them from all you have to do is open
your heart there's a Nish in every Jew
that Nish is a spark and that is
something that they're not necessarily
aware of but if you open your Jewish
heart to them and you're their friend
and you show them love it's like oxygen
for that flame and you don't have to do
anything else they may ask you questions
that you don't know the answers to and
that's fine we don't have to we're human
you can go find out you can learn with
them you can go ask a rabbi you can
that's okay um and don't be afraid of
the questions we may have those
questions ourselves we have to ask them
and there are good answers um but just
open your hearts and it's easy and
project inspired uh makes it very easy
because you you just give out these
these little boxes just like like the
the honey cake just take one hang it on
one door in your community and if one
you know 10% of us you know get a hit
you know they say with mass marketing
there's a certain return rate that they
expect well we if we all do it there's a
certain percentage that will be
successful and isn't that worth it if
it's even one family so you you and
you're not asking them for anything at
that point you're just giving them a
present and most people know about
rashishana give them out this little
gift so what I did to challenge my
friends is I actually bought 20 of them
my two kids are now delivering them with
a little note from my friend saying you
know now you have no excuse just give it
away to somebody I even bought them for
you so I hope that they do um and uh and
that I hope you know we're all
successful so that that's that's my
story thank
you thank you very much Dr Weiss i' like
to just thank Mel shiff who really was a
lifesaver for tonight's event she came
she came to help with project Inspire
and uh I don't think any of us would be
here tonight if not for her so thank you
so much and I'd like to thank all the
volunteers and everybody else who's
helped I came to bakov here I didn't go
to bakov but I came here I think uh two
weeks ago or no whenever school started
the first day of school and they were so
stressed I said why are you so stressed
so they said it's crazy bar we have so
many kids coming and I said just think
about it there isn't a single School in
the city
that is not observant that's not from
that has increasing enrollment there's
one and I said you should be very happy
that bar hasem in The Firm world were
bursting by the seams and my own kids
ker could use a new building if anybody
here wants to give it and it it's really
on one hand the Pew report just came out
this week that the firm Community is
growing by Leaps and Bounds barem and
unfortunately those who are not
affiliated are becoming much less
Affiliated but I believe and I work on
this on the front ground and I see some
people over here who I'm close with who
never would have gone on the journey
that they went on if not for their
neighbors if not for I saw somebody
today at sh and he told me his last name
I said wait I know your last name but
you're not from here like you don't live
around he says that's true I live in AR
I came back for Russ I said but I know
that there are a couple of people from
ncsy who go to you every single week not
to you to your parents and he said yeah
that's true I know those people and
they're living amazing Liv so every one
of us could make that difference I'll
also like to thank all of the sh
Representatives most of whom who have
come here tonight some have not who are
really representing their shes and
making sure that in every single sh in
Toronto we have Representatives who are
trying to spread the word we're actually
looking for female Representatives so
you can let amella know if you're
interested in that and also everybody
should have gotten a pledge card at the
back that's not for money although if
you want to give donations there is a
table on the outside but there's a
pledge card to make sure that we're maak
Badin and the way that we do that is
pledging to care about claw iSell at the
very least Davin
obviously but there's so much more that
we could also be doing and obviously if
we don't doin I think it the question is
if we care as Robbie Lo said at this
time I'd like to introduce Robie
Shapiro the way I came to Rabbi Shapiro
is I attended the project Inspire
convention in February
and they had pushed me I was coming on
board through ncsy with project inspired
they pushed me to come and the truth is
forget about any I just the gsh I've
never SE in Toronto bar we're we're
doing all right but if you want
GM the project Inspire convention is
where to go in February but the Rus was
unbelievable and Rabbi shapira was a
keynote over there and I heard him once
Friday night and I decided I am going to
every single talk by RAB shapir I went
and afterwards went to his and it's
really incredible and it's a big we were
thinking who should we bring to Toronto
so we said that obviously we had to
bring Rabbi Shapiro and at this time I'd
like to introduce Rabbi
shapir firstly I want to
begin who is not only the mo asan
someone that CLA is turns
to
but someone that I also consider to be
one of my rabim and when I have a Shila
or just uh will ask something just a
moment ago I asked
har and so for me to speak in the
presence of
the is a very very big and I hope will
give the RO and the entire the G to
continue inspiring all of
CLA I know project Inspire at one
point I think on one of their videos
they said describe the weekend without
using the word
inspire and I don't think anybody did or
maybe a lot of people did but it was a
challenge so I'm sorry to open up by
using the word inspire
but it's not easy a few days before
rashash Shana to travel to come here I
live in South Florida
but I could only imagine how difficult
it must be to have to come out for an
entire
evening and I am truly inspired that
hundreds I am looking at hundreds
of that just a few days before
rashash came
out and that to me is truly
inspirational just the fact that the
hundreds came out tonight here in
Toronto on behalf of project Inspire as
all of the Flyers said to see what could
we do for a good judgment on
y just from the fact that the hundreds
of you came out the should Grant each
and every one of
you your
families to have
a and where you should experience only
Yas from your families and enjoy it
together with your
families your coming is truly
inspiring I am here because of a blab
irons he uh we've had I can't even
imagine how many phone calls back and
forth the logistics the planning the
flying the car services and all of the
details it's a credit to ablab and thank
you very much for giving me the chance
to be mazaka the
rabim and uh just
Aon to just mention before we actually
start to speak in the presence of Samson
Rim Samson is the international director
of project Inspire he's sitting
somewhere in the audience just trying to
blend in and camouflage
himself that doesn't
happen because as the international
director of project Inspire someone
who's really changing the world
helping us realize what our Aras is the
fact that he's here tonight and that he
and project Inspire allowed me to be
here
tonight I have
tremendous
say to express how how awesome it is to
be in your presence all of the Flyers
and the information that went out about
tonight was how we can properly
Merit good judgment we just a few days
before rashash
Shana I think the words of RAB salant to
begin tonight jump at us when RAB salant
was addressing this question what can
you do to be meritorious in
judgment sh we want to have a good
G
reant says and I
quote
the single best piece of advice
[Applause]
theone become someone that other people
need
become someone to whom many people will
say I need him or I need her they're
indispensable to my
existence that's a quote from R
salant the ticket
is to how many people are you
indispensable
to how many people do they feel I can't
get along without that person I need
them that says salant is the ticket how
to beem approach
the so thinking a great amount about
tonight's talk I'd like to take it from
the following vantage
point we're going to divide the talk
into two parts following that which
kazal say
first you got to remove the bad before
you could accentuate the
good and I'd like to hopefully
accomplish this goal
B by taking one word that has the same
three
letters and in tonight's words giving it
three separate meanings so hopefully
that will be an easy way for you to
remember what we say tonight first is
then is and I know that there are three
ways to trans
translate here's the
first Sur means we have to get rid of a
certain
problem right after thein we approach
sukus we take the do minim I once heard
in the name
ofet of
Nitra an
incredible did you ever notice something
unique when you take the doll and meim
three of the four are spoken about in a
very very endearing way we speak about
the
ESR in fact people will spend a fortune
and in many cases rightfully so for that
es talk about the lulov I remember and
I'm certainly not the oldest one in the
room when it came to the lulov we used
to protect it in a plastic case then
that became a hard plastic now there's
like a virtual tank to protect your lul
love and
hadim people will spend money on hadasim
as well but why is it that when you go
to buy the doid meim did you ever notice
the one who's selling it to you will say
here's the price and I'll throw in the
AR and after a few days when the arovas
have become PL Black come back to me
I'll give you another one what did the
ARA do wrong there's the first word of a
r ARA what did the ARA do
wrong the way we talk about
the rightfully
so but why does the ARA get the short
end of the
deal tells us because look where the
dalim come from for the most part ES
will get from the finest parum The
Orchards in erit from overseas thousands
of miles away L love him who love him as
well they come in mostly many come from
France and many come from different
places in Europe the finestly love
him hadasim as well will be shipped from
overseas some from come China different
places in the orient but all those three
I just mentioned they come from
thousands of miles away you know where
many people get their arice
from yeah their own backyard many people
grow arice in their backyard and they
simply cut
it
say that's the answer to the
question the lul and theim and the hadim
are spoken about with awe and reverence
because the Mystique is there they come
from afar but the
Arava in my own
backyard we tend to take that for
granted those who are nearest to us and
those who are dearest to us we tend to
take for granted and that's why the arov
is in my backyard I'll throw it in and
if after 3 days something happens I'll
give you another
one because when something comes from
far away there's a Mystique there's an
awe there's a
reverence but those that are closest to
us are spouses our siblings the nearest
and dearest we tend to take them for
granted you know what Moret of Nitra
says about the Arava that's a ginormous
mistake you know why because take a look
at the Garin Suka when the Yum is coming
to an end and the Kim circle around the
Miss and the Y is
closing what do they Circle the mbak
with at the the end of the day when all
is said and done it's not
the it's not the and it's not the theor
says they encircle the M with just the
AR because at the end of the day all we
have the nearest and dearest the ARA in
our life now no one should go to their
spouse or sibling and say how's my Arava
doing that's not a good
idea
RAB say that's where tonight's topic
starts we're looking for that Rim that
need us to whom we're
indispensable look no further than
across your kitchen
table because sometimes the arova is
taken for granted we're with them all
the time it's interesting the word
family and familiarity have most of the
same letters because with our family we
are most familiar that has a
but that has a
huge because sometimes we take them for
granted and at the end of the day when
the Y is over and the Mystique and the
hadim and the and the are no longer in
your lives you can't depend and count on
them you know who you
have the
ARA so in dealing with
surra we first have to make sure like
RAB salant said that the Rin that need
us are spouse
our siblings our parents our
children we can't begin tonight by
looking any further than our kitchen
table is all in order with the arus in
our life those who are nearest and
dearest that's question number one CU if
the answer is no that's where it starts
with the Rin is not the Rin that's
thousands of miles away the robin starts
with my
family my my father har
shap tells us a fabulous way to be
successful in these relationships these
ARA
relationships it says in P that one of
the Miracles in the
was literally that means that when they
stood it was very cramped and crowded
but when they would bow there was ample
my father said
a 101 in a relationship with an
AR if you're always going to stand your
ground rigidly I'm right I'm right and
you never
capitulate the whole relationship will
be miserable crowded and
cramped if you're willing to Bow and
bend hear the other person's point of
view give them the time of day validate
them then R the whole relationship will
be something of rev a thing of beauty
that's a v take that with you into I see
you like that
V and when you deal with the arova those
nearest and dearest we can't be so rigid
and not hear the other person's point of
view and always putting them down it
will be it will be
miserable
validate give them the time of day show
them the love that's the ticket in fact
a little while
ago I saw in a saer a
gatria that I think is going down in my
books as one of the most Sensational and
delectable ones I ever
saw it says in K Rashi says what did K
do
wrong
which literally means he took himself
off to the side and he separated himself
from everyone he put himself on a one
one side in other words he didn't get
along with the Rob him
theor I saw the following gatria brought
down the proper way to go to any
relationship with those AR is those in
your life when you approach them there
will be disagreements there will be
issues there will be different things
that come up you have to realize it's
not like K said there's only one sad my
way or no way what you have to
realize I have a sad but so do
you I have to view everything with this
sad and that
sad if you do that the numeric value of
the word is
94 a wise person does what I just told
you they face the arov and they say you
know this is how I feel but I hear your
point and sad 94 * 2 is
188 the Hebrew for the word a wise man
is a p
p it's 188 you know what makes you a p
in a relationship realize there's myad
and the other side and I've got to
validate it as well now here's the thing
of beauty I have to do that but so do
you I have to view it with aad here and
here and so do you that means I'm
bringing in so to speak the power of a
Pak 188 but you must also be a Pak
you're bringing your own 188 what do you
get when you bring Pak together 188 * 2
376 the word Shalom peace
sh is
376 I hold that's a
gatria step number one
to says you want to be make sure that
people find you to be indispensable
don't start by looking outside look
inside it's making amends with a sibling
or whoever it might be an aunt an uncle
a cousin making sure the spouse is being
treated
properly it all begins by valuing the
ARA nearest and dearest cuz at the end
of the day when everything else is gone
you know who will be there for you
the and the first thing to do to make
sure Sur that we get rid of
this negativity is realized the next
time I feel when she calls me when he
calls me right away there's an issue one
minute I'm going to be a p there's my
side and there's her side together
that's p and if you'll do the same I'll
be a p and you'll be a p 188 time 2 is
Shalom 376 that's the way to have and
bring peace to the world it starts with
the surra one final note before we speak
about the next group that Reus salant
might be talking
about sometimes when we speak negatively
of these people in our families or might
be another yid we're very quick to use a
word that's not so nice be he's a ker
she's a ker a ker means essentially they
deny they're no good we're quick to
write people
off RAB you know what the root of the
word ker is when was told to cover the T
the
says you should cover it you know what
the root etymologically of the word ker
is it's covered
over but the beauty is there and so the
next time we're very quick to turn to
someone in an argument and not to hear
their point point of view but to stand
rigid I'm right tell yourself really you
think they're a ker ker is from the
word the beauty is covered over they're
a gem they're a jewel every Y is but
sometimes it may
be it may be covered over I just saw a
week
ago from
the Imagine taking this into Young
in the that we'll say in a few days it
says and then the second part of the
stanza
is I know it's a song but believe it or
not before it was a song it was actually
part of
the
says listen to a v we should turn to
the if you'll just good to those who are
ra those who seem to be evil and bad
you'll
see they'll really be good we
ask look at those that we think are bad
give them a little parnasa give them
Shalom give them G and you'll
see really their goodnesses cover over
and those that we think
are they will be and they are
intrinsically good we have to emulate
the ways of the let's stop viewing
people as they're no good they're a ker
you know
what show them a little bit of goodness
a little bit of light a little bit of
love and those that you think
are they will be alsoo
good now that we've taken care of the
business of
surra
and I will make amends we will make
amends before rashash
Shana with an
ARA say something we should have said a
while ago fix something we should have
done a while
ago we'll do it by realizing I and they
will be a and that will bring Shalom now
that we've taken care of the ARA let's
move on to another route of Aon R Bay
and bring us to the part of
after just to look and to do
good the says aort I believe I said this
at the convention a few months ago the
one you referred
to you're looking to have your tus
answered is that right you know what it
says
in we ask listen to our voice because we
have AR there's that word
again Sweet says the rumar
no don't read the word
arave as sweet but rather as arus arus
means responsibility the RV spoke
extensively about that
earlier says there a dum scared e you
want your answered here's the
key do you want to know when I'll listen
to
your if you have a voice of arus
there's that word I en again
responsibility
arus we're living through a time where
we want our answered think about what
occurred since last rashash Shana it's a
different world after the harof massacre
I landed in ER strol for my father's
yard site and it was in Middle of the
levias from the kadash of
harof a winter where different parts of
Europe there was tremendous
anti-Semitism people went into their PES
say they're thinking
about it's a night
of speak to your family and he s he saw
seven Empty
Chairs the
says I will listen to your but here's
the
catch you better have
responsibility we don't live in a
bubble project inspir headed by RIM
Samson has redefined the word of arus of
responsibility you heard from all of the
speaker tonight so eloquently if we
would find that
one RAB say there's so much on the
line and by the way perhaps the best
part or at least the part I enjoy most
of the V
says which of the three of taught us
this Aras getting along the best it
would be yov ainu because we know
amongst theim there was sin and hatred
and jealousy and at the end of the day
what does it say about
the everybody got
along Yakov teaches us this getting
along better
than we learn the most from yov
says the what's the name of the that
established what do we call that
Shak what do we call the name of the
that
established what do we call the name of
the that yob established and don't
answer answer
Aris yov is teaching us as we
approach involve did
you you know there's a checklist at
night I inak I in I in but did you in
AR might I humbly add I'm not ping in
front of the Rita but while the says
according to one
opinion might be a optional I humbly
suggest while M might be optional AR is
a it's
obligatory now which person has a right
on any given day not to D
AR actually if you think about project
Inspire they're all
about we know
I there's a world out there waiting for
us and the
says Arvest means you show
responsibility one you for another my
father often said over a Misa there are
few misas you'll hear in your life like
this
one from the
capish it was in Kipper afternoon the
Lower
Side the Kish was walking during a break
perhaps before Min or after
M
and he's walking with a GU by the Lowery
side Yer afternoon he sees there's a
restaurant and in the front of the
restaurant there's a glass window and he
sees that there is a
yid who is
eating at the in the front of the
restaurant
yipper the Kish walks in and he goes
over to the Y and he says and I
quote eat with a hearty
appetite when they walked
out
the gab said to
theb why do you tell
someone listen to what the Reb
said judges us either as a
or someone who sinned deliberately and
maliciously or someone who
s giving into temptation and desire when
I walk by the restaurant and I saw him
eating deliberately I knew the was going
to punish him today as
a I wanted to downgrade him I wanted him
to only be punished as a less severe
M so I walked in and I
said this way when he now eats not
deliberately but with a gmach and a
desire he'll be pun punished as the less
severe that's AR I have to tell you the
truth sometimes when I think of the
story I wonder if I would have walked by
the restaurant what would I have
said and unfortunately I don't think I
would have
said but maybe after hearing the
story and maybe after learning about
project Inspire maybe I would
have because he got to care about
everyone it's all about AAS as I said at
the
convention everybody has to make sure
they have AAS responsibility how do you
spell the
word every one of those six letters tell
you how to have true responsibility Alf
is the first letter Alf means one I've
got be responsible and take care of
myself the next letter is
a
is my brother the arova we opened up
with you take care of
them the next letter of a is a Al is
someone
else you take care of the
unaffiliated the next letter of is
a tell someone far Les you could follow
after me let them sense you the real
deal either by placing all of the honey
bags and the calls and the sweet things
on people's doors well let them see you
mean it in fact
Toronto is launching or has launched
their triple
play now in baseball a triple play
unassisted is a pretty big
deal for those who know what that Sports
term meant
but I think that it's
meaningless when it comes to Toronto's
Triple Play you know Toronto's Triple
Play is and I believe that was the
brainchild of Rim Samson and others it
means before you get to shabas and
invite them to your own for shabas let
them see it like you heard the packages
and the boxes that are
made invite them and Inspire them for
rashash Shana that's the first
part invite them and Inspire them for
suus that's the second part so that when
it comes to
sh the shabus project that is resounding
around the world that will be the third
that's a triple
play
rashash
sukus culminating in the worldwide
shabas
project don't be left out of the Triple
Play That's Tas Arvis
and so the
letter means follow after me because I'm
real what's the next
letter you know I'll follow after this
guy I see you the real deal you walk to
Walk you talk to talk you're
sincere I'll follow you and what's the
last letter
tough the first letter is an Al the last
letter is a tough that's the beginning
and end of the olive Bas alive to tough
because you've got to be there for a
fellow y beginning to end saying that
I'll be there for you because you know
you D next to me in sh we come from the
same you're part of my millu you have
the same that's not called that's called
cloning truly being there as you heard
in the letter that the RV
read the person said if somebody would
have just showed me cared look for me Al
to tough beginning to end so they're not
exactly like me they don't have the same
background they don't let know the
beauty of shabas and
that's to you to your
brothers everyone
else follow after me I'm the real
deal I will I'm comfortable with you Al
to tough beginning to end that's the way
to do it I mentioned the story a little
while ago witha
Feinstein there was a a woman I heard
this story from the doctor himself the
the son of the lady involved
she needed to take medicine on pesak for
her heart
condition so she every year a of pesak
would call rmha and ask him can I take
the
medicine and every year a of pesak Rea
would patiently explain to her why she
could take the heart medicine why it
wasn't ketz why you was okay explain it
thoroughly and wish her a good a good
jum every year this went on for over 20
years a of
pesak now a of pesak is a pretty busy
day it's probably the busiest day for
aov exponentially it's probably like
they say with the pressure that's just
south of the near nuclear explosion in
3M Island about 30 years
ago and
for p we can't
fathom the son tells me one year my
mother had gotten a bit elderly and she
forgot to call
Risha two hours before y PES to begin
the phone rings in her home and she
picks
up and the voice on the other end says
hello this is MAA Feinstein
calling I didn't hear from you today to
find out about your medicine I was
concerned are you
okay when I didn't hear from you I was
worried are you all
right and then he went on to reassure
her that she could take the medicine
it's not a problem and again vined her
un a good
junctive say do we fathom that
story
I know that if I would come home perhaps
I shouldn't say it publicly and there's
a phone call that I had to make but my
wife or somebody will tell me no they
called and said you don't need to call
them or they forgot to call you that's
like a Sim that's
enjoyable calls a woman I didn't hear
from you today are you all right I was
concerned CU
understood beginning to
end you have to have a voice of
responsibility I just want to say one
final thought before we go to the third
definition of ion R
Bas what does it take to become this
person what does it take my father once
wondered how could it be that the Hebrew
for the word to be alive is
Nish and the Hebrew for the word to be
desolate and void is Nish one could look
in the of par and they'll see many times
that word what they're the same
letters virtually
identical means to be
alive and N means void why should I get
up in the
morning what's the difference between a
shama and a shama
under the shin ofish is a which looks
like
this under the shin
of is a come how do you make a come from
a is a line across like this so how do
you make a from a you add a little
support
underneath and when you add a little
support you create a nisham
ask people who have no
support ask people who would not know
that on purm you hear and
on and on P you eat mat and you take and
what did we just hear about rashash
rashash in Disney World rashash in
hotels all over different European
countries when people have no support
their life is Nish show a little
support and you create a
Nish that's all it
takes and I think that's why we heard
from a few people tonight and as well in
the name of abber zal if everybody would
find one
Nish we'd rewrite
history it doesn't take something big
and grandiose it doesn't take my entire
City and a thousand families and a
mountain that's
insurmountable the difference between n
sh and the sh is a little support if
everybody would take upon themselves one
GID one family one person history would
be Rewritten
tonight everybody has to create a Nish
after all is that not what re salant
said to how how many are you
indispensable when I had the privilege
of writing this in an article a few
months ago I actually asked these
questions which I'll quickly ask to you
how do you do on the following checklist
to how many people are you truly
indispensable how many people can you
say depend on you for
huh how many people count on you for
shabis and Y
suda and I don't mean when they get
called Friday afternoon
how many people count on you to learn
with them and teach them more about
Yiddish
kite and their children if they are the
parent aren't
there how many people count on you to
help them financially and
emotionally to how many people are you a
shoulder to cry on a listening ear do
you provide a warm smile or a kind word
and finally how many people could you
honestly say count on you for advice
guidance inspiration and compassion
that's a
checklist and the same way a person goes
into Yan with a checklist I made this
for this meal and that for that meal and
I took the suit to the cleaners and the
car is filled with gas and I'm ready to
go ask yourself the checklist that I
just
mentioned how many people R are going to
say please Grant her him a good I need
them and I can't live without
them no how many people are you
indispensable for the advice for the
guidance for the financially emotionally
y shabus learn with
them that's a
checklist and that's the second
definition
Arvis and now for the third and final
definition perhaps the one that we most
associate the iron r with more than
AR and more than that concept of
K it's what I said a few moments ago
the you know how to do this the upshot
of everything we've said really
everything the relationships with those
nearest and dearest those with him in
with whom you're have been in they fight
those unaffiliated it's all the same
answer tell them how sweet it is I
believe I heard in the name of
our I believe I heard in his name the
following question why is it that in we
say yet we know that the
a could also act as if one didn't say
the yet in the a or youed there's such a
long
list maybe 10 things long why is that
list not in the you know what
said because if you have
the and it's sweet you have
everything if you have a by definition
you have
the Lar only when you don't have
it could we please leave here tonight
and go into you T inv showing them the
there's nothing sweeter it's that triple
play I mentioned
earlier it's getting involved with
project inspire you don't mind if
hundreds of Us come to you and want to
get involved tonight I'm
sure bombard project Inspire more than
they were ever given
I want to do I want to do tell them
that could you please leave here tonight
showing somebody how sweet it
is our family mut RM
schmeltzer the malal of tell
Chicago has told me the following Raa
story many times I simply can't get
enough of
it the first part of the story is a
little bit sad so I
apologize but uh years and decades ago s
decided to make prank phone
calls and the pranks were going to be to
different different G and fabricate
silly
questions one of these boys it was his
turn to call
rmha it pains me to even say this part
of the
story but fasten your seat Bel and
listen to the
rest he had to call rmha he called about
11:00 Rea had already gone in the reiton
said should I wake the rashash Shiva and
the boy who was going to play the prank
said
yes Raa came to the phone and said hello
he said excuse me I have to wash my
hands and
make he then asks Raa his silly prank
shy Raa picked up right away that it's a
joke and so he says to this bck where do
you
learn the bck fearing that he would be
in trouble didn't want to answer maybe
something's going to happen to me Raa
reassured
him I'm not nothing will happen don't
worry where do you learn he tells him
what gimar are you learning tells him
what da you want tells him he says let
me ask you a casha on
Tois he asks it to the boy on that page
asking that cash on toes to the
boy of course the boy didn't
know you want to know
thear I'll tell
you I'll tell you Raa says let's learn
the gar of course Raa without taking the
gimar word for word gimar and Rashi did
you get it let's do it again any better
let's do it again I I don't know IFA
taught him word for word three times or
four times gamar Rashi every single
word now let's do
tyus he taught him
tus after he instilled in
the look how sweet it
is he then said now let me ask you the
Kasha again and he asked it to the boy
and the boy said you know it's a good
caser that's an unbelievable
question raisha says here's what I want
you to do
tomorrow I want you to go to Yeshiva and
when you learn this Su and tus I want
you to ask your rebi this
Kasha the next morning he's in
class and he asks the Kasha and the rebi
says that's an unbelievable Kasha
where'd you get it from he says from RHA
Feinstein the rebi says I need to think
about it at the end of the week after
thinking about it for those few days he
comes back and he gives the boy an
answer the boy
says I was so empowered by the sweetness
of
Tyra I was so empowered by the patience
and loving guidance of
Raa that Raa had the a thousand
psychologists might not think of it
empower the boy with a question so that
the boy can go in and now all of a
sudden
he says to himself my rebi thought about
my Kasha for almost a week I Mish had
the power of that
Kasha the boy turned his life around and
yes I will tell you and it's 100%
accurate the boy today is no boy he's
a
MAG in a very prestigious Yeshiva G in
the tri state
area a prestigious Yeshiva in the tri
state
area you know why
because he tasted the sweetness and he
tasted the patience and the guidance of
Raa and it turned his life around you
know tell
us you know how everybody
translates people were created what's a
good definition to to you know how you
spell
l l you know what L really stands
for we weren't created to live in our
own bubble and
Cocoon stands
for we have to show the beauty there's a
from the red on the on the
in you know everybody translates
that if you learned a lot
of don't pat yourself on the back and
think you're a gift to the world you
were created to learn you know what the
rumar says anytime you have the word
is if your privilege to learn a lot
of don't keep all that goodness for
yourself don't be
selfish don't keep the beauty
of you were created to spread it in fact
if you rearrange the letters of the word
it's that spells the word
sinus is a pipe pipe it into another yid
tell me something is there a better
definition in the world for project
Inspire than that I'm sure many people
will say there is I humbly think that
was
it tell me something you know in a few
days is rashash Shana do you know
Millions
don't do you know many think there's
nothing wrong with eating on Kipper what
are you talking about going into a what
are you going to that H for and
suus what's wrong with bread on
P don't keep that goodness and Beauty
for yourself you were created to spread
it and that's the way we began tonight's
talk we're looking for
judgment on rashash
Shana says
re let's say those words again the
single greatest piece of advice to be
meritorious in judgment
is become indispensable to as many as
you
can to the
ARA to those nearest and dearest to
people that you need to make amends
tonight
and what does it
take just a little bit of
support after we've tackled the AR and
we realized I start with those nearest
and
dearest then I
realize I have to have a voice of
responsibility the third definition is
the one we mentioned
V it's so
sweet it's so sweet and the sweetness
turns lives around
when people will get serious about the
triple play of project
Inspire when people will get serious
about the shabis project that which is
used around the world and so many
including project Inspire help to
promote the show them the
sweetness and that's a way to make sure
we're indispensable to people I just
want to end with one
MSA there was a
couple that worked for leim the kir of
organization
in in the northern part of erit
Isel
they had they did Fabulous work they had
a boy who just turned three in fact when
I said this over recently someone who
knows the family extremely well added in
a very very very sad detail their
three-year-old who had to add the
upshire in the morning morning went toer
and as the day progressed he wasn't
feeling
well and after he went to lie down iner
unfortunately the three-year-old was
nft and this couple that worked for leim
had to now sit
Shiva for their three-year-old someone
who knows the family very well said in
erit is they say that in the
morning on the way to the upshire and
they wrapped their three-year-old in
aalis and at Night by Kura they also WRA
their three-year-old in aalis by that
they mean many have the custom that in
the morning by an up Sharon you wrap in
a Talus so the eyes don't see anything
that's not pure and they're sitting
shiva
sometimes people in a Shiva home don't
say the brightest things and that was
being
kind the man who sitting shiva for his
three-year-old gets a phone call he
comes back and this is what he says I am
currently trying to be ma of eight boys
that don't keep
Shabbat one of the eight just
called representing the other seven and
said to me the rabbi we heard what
happened to your
three-year-old in his memory I and the
other seven the eight of us this Shabbat
will
keep one shabas
this house for your
three-year-old he comes back very moved
and he shares this with everybody and
someone who did not say something very
bright probably meant no harm but still
he says to the rabbi the phone call was
nice from the eight
boys like is it such a big deal they'll
keep this one shabus and that's it you
know who says they're going to keep
shabas again one shabas and they going
to keep chabas again
it's nice but not that last thing or
meaningful just one
chabas our friend looks at this
man and he says I'll answer your
question you want to know if it's
meaningful that they'll keep one
chabas do you know what my wife and I
would do he
says to get our three-year-old back for
one
chabus do you know what we would do so I
could feel him holding my hand again
bringing him back from sh shab's
day or from my wife to see that he'd be
bouncing on my knee while we sing
mirise you know what we would do to get
him back for one
chabus you want to know if it's a big
deal we would give up everything to have
him back for one
chabus and then he turns to the man and
says now the re shalam is getting eight
children
for one shabis eight of his children
back for one
Shabbat you still want to know if it's a
big
deal ask my
wife the is getting back a children for
one shabas that's a big
deal and so through the triple
play and approaching the shabas
project maybe the re shalam will get
back hundreds of thousands for one
chabus it's a big
deal in fact it's the biggest deal to
take into rashash Shana
period let's be this is the month as the
r said
of but if you spell those letters
backwards Al lamid lamid spell it
backwards it's lamid V lamid Al you know
what that spells lle you know what loule
means in English lulle if
only loule
if only you know who says that people
who live with
regret if only I would have done that
sooner if only I would have called
him if only I wouldn't have said that to
her if only I would have listened to the
speech there are some people who live
their entire life lulle esque in nature
they live with
regret if only I would have done this if
only I would have taken it
serious don't let this month end as
loule a month where we regret I
didn't some people live their whole life
that way as this month comes to an end
we better make sure that it's not the
month of lulle but it's the month of
el may it be the will
of that because we came together tonight
on behalf of project Inspire and we will
make sure number one the first Iron r v
is the I will care for those nearest and
dearest the second ra
is I have to show responsibility and the
last iron ra vas is How Sweet It
Is let's take
that that's a big deal let's take what
says to heart you want to be meritorious
in
judgment from someone that you are
indispensable to people that they will
in say I need that person and in
that's that the rabim need us our
families need us our neighbors and
co-workers need us the unaffiliated need
us may it be the will of sh that we
never experience lle but
El and in that's May the grant every one
of us because we are so indispens ible
and needed because of the we provide to
others may we be to
have and a year filled filled with only
Yas to be enjoyed
gun thank you very much rabish Shapiro
in
conclusion everybody had a sheet on
their chair so please take a look we
have a Shabbat so a very practical thing
to give shabas to somebody else TI
Triple Play I just want to end with a
quick
thought before you
leave so when we walk out of here
tonight let's commit to do something to
help our neighbor our friends let's take
an action and before shabas let's make
sure that we're going into rashash with
this incredible and you know we get
asked often times that why should we do
kirv why should we care about kirv
donate to kir do anything about kir we
have so many issues ourselves that we
have to take care of right we have we
have we have every last issue under the
B there's a project for everything why
care about kir and I think we heard the
answer here tonight loud and clear from
Rabbi Loy and Rabbi Shapiro that the
reason is that if we take care of
hashem's children then Hashem will take
care of us to be his
for for Yeshua for everything we need
and if we're able to D
for then will be
for every single
Jew amen we're going to have Mar now on
this side the thank you so much you
could give your pledge cards to the
volunteers
and
J