Wiping a Tear Tisha B'Av 2010

I would like to speak of the importance the project Inspire theion of has become a word that people are organizations are trying to bring people closer to but we have to realize it's not a MIT of organization every person every is to be mention we live in very turmoil times troubl times what do we learn from that we learn from that as follows the is considered like and in you can differentiate this limb from another limb and this is how we have to consider a Brethren clly oil clly oil there so United it's like one goof like one goof he can't depart you can't take him apart this is how we have to care about our Brethren that's one goof the project Inspire is something that we have to be because it teaches us that we can be wherever they are whatever we do invite someone for a chabas speak to someone nicely friendly that brings us together and bringing us together can we imagine a father that he says that children are apart how happy he is when children get together how happy the father is and this is our Father in heaven in that that we will get together more and care for one another for the last 2,000 years we have been crying we have been crying for the mdash we've been crying for the violent Slaughter of millions of Jews we've been crying for the forced expulsions of entire Jewish communities now one would have thought after 2 years the crying would somehow come to an end and yet we still find ourselves crying we are crying over anti-Semitism not of the 1930s in Warsaw and Berlin but we are crying over the anti-Semitism that sweeps throughout our American University system turning some American Jewish students into self-hating Jews we're crying for the loss of the best and brightest in our Jewish communities for the Youth who are being lost not to the armies of the Zars but to the Mean Streets of their own Comm communities we are crying for the assimilation and intermarriage of millions of Jews who forsake the time tested values of Torah for the abyss of meaningless [Music] assimilation can a lunatic State like Israel be trusted so you see our support for Israel as having in some way did cause 9/11 Israel had been harvesting organs from slain bodies including [Music] Palestinians four men arrested in an undercover FBI stting and charged with a plot to blow up two synagogues in the Bronx but I don't think 6 million Jews were gased authorities in California are urging Jewish schools and temples to stay alert following a shooting at a synagogue in La tell them to get the hell out of palde where should they go what should they do they go home where's the Home Poland so the Germany [Music] during the darkest of time the T tells us that will redeem us will return us from the terrible Gull will collect us from among all the nations point out it would have been appropriate to say that will return us and yet the T says V H will return because himself is in the Gus with us as we cry during this long AB bitter Gus cries with us in fact the highest form of mourning according to m is to cry for the of is to cry for the fact that is crying with us are we in fact doomed to repeat this entire process again next year or might there be some way that we could create a change that would affect the future of the Je people that would break the pattern that's been established over 2,000-year timeline that could rebuild the B mikdash and in the process wipe away a tear over the next few moments we're going to meet some seemingly ordinary people who have accomplished extraordinary things and they did this by realizing that it was sin that brought the B mdash down these people listening to the same news stories that you and I do have concluded that these are in fact powerful messages from urging us to rebuild the bash through through and through taking responsibility for cloud Israel you know you have all these Israelis in the mall who don't have any connection to the Jewish Community around them they're away from home seeing these Jews every day so disconnected from Torah so disconnected from their Judaism really really pained me there were probably a good 2,000 students who weren't involved in Jewish life at all weren't weren't part of that Vibrant Community weren't celebrating Shabbat um weren't connected to Judaism and I have lived in neighborhoods where you know your your next door neighbor people on the street don't want anything to do with yish kite I beg thinking what's going on with the yish nation and it really pained me and I thought someone has to do it many people erroneously think that cirv could only happened under carefully supervised conditions and yet we're going to find that cir can happen in the most unlikely of places we're going to look in on Jeremy staman as he literally goes shopping for kiru I'm Jeremy staman my wife KH and I have been living in Baltimore for the last 20 years I'm a graphic designer and my wife is an ultrasound technician and we have uh two sons one of the things that had a profound impact on us was last year's project Inspire video One Soul you know says and he says you go down the street and you see a guy drowning you're going to go in and save him you don't know how to swim poor guy he drowns but if every day you go and you see people drowning then you have an obligation to learn how to swim you couldn't help but leave that movie wanting to do something and trying to figure out what you can do shortly thereafter my wife KH had the idea you know you have all these Israelis in the mall who don't have any connection to the Jewish Community around them they're away from home why don't we try and get them to join us for rashishana to our sh to our home we can begin to make a connection with them around that time I had seen a flyer project Inspire had a question and answer uh phone conference call with Rabbi milstein I figured out well I'll go on the conference call and I'll ask if anyone has any advice on how to be marar of Israelis how to speak to them how to deal with them so I asked the question on the call and sure enough someone else who was on that phone call that day from Minneapolis answered the question he said well I go to the Mall of America every Thursday night with hot cougle and I always end up with Israelis at my table Friday night I said ah behold the power of cougle my wife KH feed will bring kalas we'll bring cougles We'll go to the mall Thursday night Friday we'll give out some food we'll make some connections with these Israelis there they were very receptive especially the first day when I came with my credit card in hand they were glad to sell me Cosmetics which probably were half a month mortgage uh for the nail polish and in the process I we started I started shooing with them and we started making a connection and I gave them the kalas and cougle and when I showed up the next week they remembered me so every Thursday night Friday we pack up our bags with fresh cougles and kalas head off to the mall and we make our rounds still hadn't succeeded in getting them to our home for a chabas so we made up a nice invitation I'm a graphic designer so we had the uh assets of the studio at work and uh we made up a nice invitation in Hebrew inviting them to our home for a party in our Suka we started talking it up to them and we told them it would be from 9: to 11:00 p.m. I didn't want to scare them I didn't want them to think they were going to be stuck at our house for 5 hours I wanted to make it friendly and approachable one by one we went to the different booths and we told them what we were planning we gave out the invitation they seemed really interested I guessed that we were going to have between somewhere between 10 and 25 people coming to the Suka so many of them said that yes we want to come we want to come we're going to be there and sure enough Friday night one by one they filed in the door the conversation was great the camaraderie was great they loved making Kish and hamotzi and washing we sang I prepared at VOR over sukus when we did go go with the Lula and esrog we had some wonderful experiences then too again no pressure we asked would you like to take the Lula and esrog some people said yes some people said no but I asked one of the women why don't you want to do it and she said sheepishly in Hebrew I don't really know how to do it I was like oh my gosh all these days I've been coming and I and and I didn't give her the opportunity to do it because I didn't offer to help her with it and my wife swooped in and helped her say the Braha and so on that last day of hos Raba of last sukus she was able for the first time to make a braa on the lul of anr it's now almost a year that we've been doing this and almost without fail every week we're in the mall there are so many Jews out there that want to make that connection they're waiting for this they're waiting for us to stretch out our hands so that they can grasp on they may be a little reluctant at first but they really want it what could be more ordinary in hum drum than going to work we're going to meet a gentleman who turned his daily commute to work on the train into an opportunity to reach Jews who were simply unreachable my name is Daniel Hadar we live in Silver Spring Maryland in the Woodside community near the Metro I work as an intellectual property attorney for the United States Postal Service inhouse I do stamps and fun things like that I walk to the Metro every day and I take the metro into my office uh where it takes me pretty much right into where I work being on the Metro every single day I realize that you have a tremendous opportunity to meet people you're I'm on the Metro for about 25 minutes heading straight to work and uh it's a place where there's some quiet time but there's also a lot of action and bustle um and I start to meet Jewish people people start to uh Bagel me some people would uh come over and say you know shabbat shalom it's my father's yite things are going on and I recognize this is really an opportunity to catch these people and engage them in a more serious fashion seeing these Jews every day so disconnected from Tor so disconnected from their Judaism really really pained me and I came to a point where I said you know what I can do something about this it was almost like a metaphor that this was the train to Nowhere they were on a train to nowhere um it was time for me to say I need to step out of my comfort zone I can do this and I did I tried and I did and by connecting with them it really made a difference once I realize that someone's Jewish I'll come over say why don't you come to my house for Shabbat before they can even turn around I'll go ahead and just introduce myself uh as daniar I work here at the postal service and we have a lot of people for Shabbat if you give me your email I'll send you an invite 90% of the time uh people and people accept the invitation and people will give me their email and when I email them they will respond at first they're a little bit timid and then when I when I when I say you know what we're having a bunch of people over they get a little bit more comfortable and then when they say can I bring a friend I say sure that gets them a little bit more of a comfort level and they're still a little bit you know worried nervous to go to this person's house they have no idea this person is but as soon as they come into the house and they see the kids and they see more people and they see a warm house house um they totally relax and they they just get involved and and people have come and said you know this has been an unbelievable opportunity for my life and I had a chance to touch my Judaism even this one time and from there um they have got interested in it and uh and it's taken off I was on the Metro and this happened right before rashash I had met um I had walked on and I had only two stops to go and I saw this Jewish young guy who had some Hebrew on his backpack and I said wow are you Jewish he said yeah I said what are you doing for rashash he says nothing I said why don't you come over he said what do you mean I said to my house he said I said we have a lot of people and it's festive and it's a very special time of year and I only had about five minutes because we were having the next stop and he started ask me questions about rashash sham I said you know there's are great questions I I don't have time getting off the Metro here's my card please email me I'd love to have you he emails me I invite him over he comes over with his uncle two cousins and another friend of his in fact we I wasn't even expecting them to come he said he's going to try to come so we didn't even have room at the table we ended up bringing another table in putting them in they were so inspired by what had happened uh and by the meal that they came over the next night this guy ended up telling me that he was amazed to connect with his Judaism that his family never connected and he wants to go to Israel because he wore this backpack that I saw him wearing that talked about you know his trip to Israel that he never went on um we had hooked him up with the program and he went to Israel and the last I heard he's still there I had a small window of time with these people and I realized that this is it and I said you know what it's now or never that step of saying you know what this is your chance push me to say at least give it a shot you'll maybe never see these people again you maybe won't have ever a chance it was it was the opportunity of that moment in time to say you know what you've just got a moment try to take it invisible Jews seem to be all around us but Daniel Hadar figured out a way to surface them and to reconnect them with their ancient Heritage and with the Tesha there's no better way to understand understand this than through the words of Rabbi Zev the Zohar says that Isel is an acronym it stands for the following words y there are 600,000 letters to the toah the idea being simply that there's 600,000 letters in the Torah there are 600,000 root Souls of the Jewish people and every Jew is a letter in the Torah there's only one problem with that there aren't 600,000 letters in the Torah so you say okay plus or minus a few you know gatri is are never exact so how many letters are there in the Torah 34,5 188 that's not plus or minus one or two that's like 300,000 are missing so unless we have the reader Digest condensed version something's wrong so what does it mean I know about 11 answers to that question the poua speaks about it in kadan but there's no question the question would only be if it said B Torah there are 600,000 letters in the Torah and it's not true there aren't 600 th000 letters in the Torah and you need to somehow answer that question but if it said it wouldn't spell Isel it would spell isra in order to spell Isel it has to be which means the following there are 34,000 letters in the written Torah but that Torah is not complete and unless you add another 600,000 letters and those 600,000 letters are the souls the root Souls of the Jewish people and we're all part of a cluster of souls that are part of those root Souls of clra the Torah is not complete and yet unless added to the Torah connected to the Torah and unless every Jew is connected to the Torah the Torah is not not complete and just like in the written Torah if one letter is missing the Torah is not a Torah if one Jew is missing then the Torah is not a Torah so until all Jews recognize their Heritage and are part and bring out their letter that has to be added to the Torah the Torah is incomplete The Daily Grind of attending classes on campus can hardly be considered considered an ideal environment for doing C of and yet here is a young man who saw an opportunity in going to school every day on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania to attract not just one or two Jews to Yiddish kite but to create a nationwide movement of young Jewish college students Rah liab please meet Hart LaVine everyone always used to brag about how amazing and how strong and and how vibrant the Orthodox community at the University of Pennsylvania was and and it really was there's s m a and a lot of Shum and programs and activities and tises and guest lectures um and it was really great but one of the things I I started realizing was there were probably good 2,000 students who weren't involved at all in Jewish life weren't involved in the community weren't celebrating Shabbat as someone who cared about Judaism and cared about the Jewish community and found it to be a problem that there were so many people who weren't involved um I thought this say that that I should at least try and make a difference I realize there's a large community of really passionate vibrant and involved and active Jewish students um and I realized that if these students can really reach other students in a way that no organization could so we wanted to find ways to create Jewish experiences to share with our friends to invite them to shabbat dinners to set up one-on-one learning programs um to get them involved in in Holiday experiences ways that we can make Judaism relevant to them and we sat down and had a meeting um probably 15 of us one when January evening and we said here's the problem here's the situation um what can we do to make a difference and one of the things we thought of doing is having Shabbat dinners and we had a Shabbat dinner we we set up a table we started with Shalom and explaining what Shabbat was and most people stayed for around two hours had a great time there around three or four people who stayed for a good four hours and they wanted to sing zro and they wanted to learn Israeli songs and they wanted to talk about Judaism and ways to get involved in Social Action through the Jewish community and be a part of it um and it was amazing I I I never met these people before and I couldn't believe how excited they were to be involved in it at a certain point we realized we're really making a difference in the Jewish Community reaching people at Penn um then I thought hey what about other colleges which didn't have a big Jewish Community I wonder if we as students could know meet these other students and share a vibrant exciting Jewish experience with them so somehow we got in touch with the University of Kentucky um through a friend who was going to speak there and we heard that out of 20,000 students there are around 200 Jewish students we rented a car and seven of us drove down to Kentucky it's a good 13-hour Drive um and we got there we set up camp and we had um and we made chabat in one of the in one of the classrooms and 15 students and professors showed up um people who had never been to shabbat before people who didn't know other Jews in college um it's probably the first Shabbat in the University of Kentucky in in quite a while the way holidays work append is a lot of the religious students go home um so pesak especially all the Orthodox students go home and then left at pen are all these Jewish students who don't have a siter at home to go to or don't care enough about Staters to miss classes but yet somewhere in the back of their mind they're the Grandfather said something or for something it means for them to come to a theater so I heard about this what was going on at pen and I I turned to my parents I said Mommy tati I love you I love sers at home but here's what's happening at pen I'm going to stay at pen to lead Staters this year um and my parents understood they they want to be be home but they understood what I was doing and I I spoke to some other students in the Orthodox community at the end we had 15 students who decided to stay at Penn that year to lead saders and and and we prepared we had sessions different rabbis came in and told us prepared and had to run discussions um had to run a Hal seder for people who don't know what Hala or what a Seder is between and between the two nights around 150 students came to our seders um some of them were their first time walking into the hill building and it was amazing we the Seder lasted for around 5 hours the people some of them never been to ster before some of them they said to they've been to St before it was normally half an hour around their kitchen table and they were so excited and thrilled that someone cared about them and shared such a meaningful experience with them um and we talked and we sang and we danced on tables and people told their family stories and we went around and shared ideas and we had discussions and it was amazing afterwards P said Thank you heart for giving me the first meaningful Jewish experience of my life at a certain point around 2 years ago I realized wow this really making a difference and I realized it's not unique to the campus at University of Pennsylvania there are a lot of colleges which have you know dozens or hundreds of of religious Orthodox students and probably thousands of uninvolved students so they know these these ideas could work just as well Shabbat and if not unique to pen so I started speaking to friends and friend of friends at other colleges who I knew cared about Judaism and cared about the Jewish Community um I started sharing these ideas with them and they're like they're like this is exactly what our campus needs so I ended up running a shabbaton for around 50 students from 15 different colleges we came to pen and we sat down and students went back to their campus and they started groups on their own some of them started running Shabbat in at their colleges um some students stayed on campus to run stay as at different colleges now there are groups of students starting at maybe 10 or 20 different universities when I first go around meeting people or inviting them to shabbat dinners at first they say oh are you from this organization are you from that organization I'm like no I'm I'm I'm just Hart LaVine I'm I'm a junior in bioengineering um so my friends started calling it The heartt LaVine Project based around the personal nature of it um as a start of grow we couldn't actually call it that so instead we call it heart tohe heart which is based on the original name but also it's about showing me and loving relationships and building a Jewish Community um around loving principles um and some people say oh heart only you could do it cuz your name's heart I say yeah but everyone has a heart that they could share with someone else little did heart livine realize how far and wide his activities would spread RAB pesak cron teaches us that every Act of kirov is an act where we're planting a seed that can yield tremendous results listen to this expression we should live with this anyone can count the seeds in one apple you don't have to be a big to open an apple and count the seeds but only Hashem can count the apples in one seed imagine how brilliant that is anyone can count the seeds of one apple but only Hashem can count the apples of one seed that one seed ofed it made that other fellow from now he has children eventually I'll have grand children that's what we came here for this shabas we came to become those who will plant seeds and what I added to this expression is plant seeds so that others will reap everyone bemon the fact that we have lost our sense of community we've become disjointed we become too disparate Larry de of Toronto Canada is a person who has understood this need and has used it to create a very powerful cure of tool we lived in a community North of Toronto called Thornhill woods and in Thornhill Woods um there's about 3,000 families of which about 50% are Jewish how do we know this my daughters and I walked on every street and counted the muas on the doors and did a a quick census one of the ideas we had was um young families need entertainment for children how do I know this I'm in marketing and you know you take the McDonald's formula successful formula entertainment for children is what drives people to events we thought you know what if we can bring families together through entertainment kosher entertainment then we can reach out to them and have a connection so what we decided to do was have Park events and we called it Wednesday night in the park and the idea was to have um through the summer a succession of between six and nine Park events we did this two summers in a row where we would hire an Entertainer um either a magician a clown a kid singer and they would come to the idea would be they would come to the park um we would advertise it um give out balloons and make it very fun and engaging for kids so to start this what we did was we printed up a flyer to let people know that there would be entertainment in the park for six Wednesdays in a row and we walked on every street door too my daughters and I and handed out a flyer on every door in the neighborhood that had a Maza we figured if they have a mza they must represent that they're Jewish and um we literally just put a flyer in the door and and then we did some advertising as well of course by walking on every street we got to know how many Jewish homes there were in the neighborhood we started off first the the first evening um it was a beautiful evening and there was probably 150 or 200 families that came to the park it was a very good event in the sense that um every Wednesday um I would be the MC and I would introduce just say hello to people in the neighborhood tell them a little bit about was what was going on um in the Jewish Community within the neighborhood um by about the third or fourth week we actually invited some Jewish groups to come out and set up tables um around the perimeter of where the entertainment was happening um it's various different groups some of the local Hebrew schools um some shs most of the most of the people that came in fact I I'd say most almost entirely all of them were secular Jews um didn't really know much about Judaism but very much appreciated having to to the the opportunity to interact with their neighbors meet some of the Jewish families in the neighborhood and get to know that there was a Shool their neighborhood and that there were Jewish there was Jewish programming going on just even to meet the rabbi of the community or meet some of the families in the neighborhood just to shake hands say hello in a very comfortable and relaxed mode so we did this the first summer for 6 weeks second summer we did it again we repeated it and I would say within the community we probably touched at least two probably 2,000 maybe 2500 people over the course of the 6 weeks very very successful events there's no one methodology that's perfectly suited for every cure of situation just as there's no environment that's going to Foster cure of every single time we're going to meet someone who lives in an environment that would seem to be ill suited to Du kiru and yet he has probed his environment he has probed his surroundings and has come up with an amazing program that has not only transformed his own backyard in Muny New York but has literally changed communities throughout the United States of America in my favorite K of Story please meet reab Arya Roy my name is Arya Roy I was B up in Manchester England and I got married here in mon New York around 7 and a half years ago and I've been here since I've been learnning get Cod and I'm still in COD fulltime but once I begun the training through project Inspire I was opened to a new world which I was never open exposed to how many people out there are not from and the simulation rate which I began thinking what's going on with the yish nation and it really pained me and I thought someone has to do it and if we don't get each and every one of us to care about our fellow yid we're not going to make this happen so I just began thinking what could we do and of course being nice to people in the street starting with people I meet with I was very successful in finding people who were interested in learning with me so I was in walking in the street one day and someone stopped me he was riding a bicycle and he stopped me and he asked me directions to local mall so I asked him if he je and he says he is so we had a friendly talk and after smoing half an hour obviously I gave him the directions but we more than that that we exchanged telephone numbers and this was over a year ago and ever since we've been friendly and I with him once a week either over the phone or we get together in the park we learn together the more care of training I attended the more I saw and the more I he what was going on in the world and I found out all about the Terri World inter marriage assimilation was going on in North America and I thought we have to do something about it and if I don't do it who will and it's not just me I try to encourage my friends to do it and after all people ask what is this for man to do care and I think on the contrary wasn't that thing which used to do going around traveling to Pas and to teach them what yish is about and show them the beauty of yish that is another initiative we had was setting up a tent outside the supermarket before PES as we know people from all over come to Jewish supermarkets before PES to shop for their PES PES needs I met many people from outside of mons from Westchester from Pennsylvania secular people who observe to a certain extent PES and they came to koser to buy the PES needs therefore we set up a tent outside the supermarket in the parking lot and we had a few guys in inside the store walking up and down the aisles telling them that there's a PES tent outside so we sent in secular people to come to our tent and we had the whole PES Expo we had a SED table set out and we had a lot of literature on pesak which we gave to them we had computer screen set up with is videos about PES and it was a very exciting experience for them and the reaction of people who came into the tent were so excited of what they saw because they only know to their knowledge PES is just the minimum what they saw in their home and they only keep to a certain extent PES and when they came into the tent there saw so much more to learn about PES and we taught them and they went away feeling more excited over the so I tried to come up with an idea what we could do something unique which I could share and give my contribution to the yish of nation by doing K and what could I do with myish friends do which no one else could do how could we make a contribution until we came up with this idea called the traveling traveling is we're going to travel around the country all over the United States wherever we are invited to we're going to try to um enhance the akas and Jewish Unity and Jewish love and and through the warmth and spirit and dancing and singing We got to Philadelphia with saw on the B outside the a center welcome join us for shabas with the with the traveling C the latest shabas we were at the whole reform and conservative Community joined they all come over and say you guys were great this shabas was amazing this shabas is really beautiful you should come again recently there was a shabbaton held in the five towns of New York an attendance happened to be a group of Israeli Kim the Israeli Kim when they saw us they were shocked what do want to have with [Music] us they were just blown away and we exchanged telephone numbers email address and we've been in touch since so everyone dance together sang together was a nice shabat thank you all so much one of the great tools we use when we go out for shabas is the the the tool the music the S the singing the dancing cuz that's something that everybody can connect it's something that connects to the nas we've been in touch with with many of the participants we have oneto one k over the phone and they've grown a lot in yish K [Music] since what project inspired taught us is that kir is not something that should be left only to professionals it's something that we all can do in our own ways and uh we're all part of it by traveling around the country to communities who are less Affiliated than us we are showing them a the beauty of yish and shabas which they've never experienced such exciting shabas before and B which is much more important we show them that we are one family and even us Ultra Orthodox kidish are coming to their communities who are totally unaffiliated and we are bonding with them and enjoying a shabas together we are showing them we are one family the most important component in successful Outreach is caring after that it's up to each and every one of us to take some concrete action to step up to the plate and actually go out and do cir of for some of us this is something that's quite uncomfortable we're just not prepared to take on the unknown situations out there and it is for this reason that project Inspire has created the the home cure of training seminar where we walk people through situations they're likely to encounter every day in Outreach and give them the steps that they need to take to successfully navigate those traits come listen with me for just a moment as we look in on one such kir of training seminar in Lakewood New Jersey we every one of us has an ability and there's no two people some people are prevented from doing Kira because they say what if they ask me a question that I can't answer if they ask me a question I can't answer what am I going to do what am I do I won't be able to answer a question what am I going to say what am I going to do so I'm going to get involved in kiru I can't get involved in kiru so the first thing is there's a fantastic answer to every question that you don't know the answer to it's an EMS answer and it's always effective and always works and the answer is I don't know but I'll check it out and I'll get back to you in kir of that's marvelous that some of us think that somehow if we get involved to do kiru somehow our Rus is going to suffer and the answer is doing kiru will definitely affect your Rus but in a good way the idea that you can touch the life of another Jew in such a profound way and in such a simple way and in such an easy way it's just so powerful it inspires us it makes us better Jews doing kiru is not just for them it's at least as much for the meaning it brings to our lives when you engage somebody in a real way and they are inspired you can't help but be inspired yourself so now you get addicted to it because your whole rashash sh table your Shabbat table is a different experience because people are are so inspired to be there you recognize how inspiring it is to be at your own table the kids get inspired by that by people wanting to be over and now my kids when we don't have guests say where is the guests can we invite more people maybe we should go to the street maybe we should go to the metro and get some more people over um it it really it changes your your your meal experience and it changes you know your way to engage not just the Jewish people but yourself when you realize how how much it really means when I started sharing these ideas um with other students some people came to me and they said you know hard isn't this the Cure of organization's job and I said maybe but this is something that's also important to me um and as someone who cares about Judaism and the Jewish Community this is something I can get involved in also and I can make a difference to one person a few people um and every person can relate to different people differently I really ended up uh deepening myself and and and and learning from other people and and being able to share with other people um really helped me grow a lot jewishly by being able to share those ideas um it enriches our lives in the sense that as a student you can learn a lot but as a teacher you learn more so when you're giving over knowledge when you're being able to give over kindness and Hospitality then it actually gives you more pleasure in life it's not the actual PES tent we set up or it's the traveling traveling to the around the country showing shabas experience it's the feeling we had that we have to change the world and we have to do something the more I'm involved in kiru the more it's it has changed my life tremendously it's changed my whole family's life because our whole outlook in yish is different as we are constantly speaking to other people about yish and we're telling them how nice it is and the beauty of yish and we like to share a shabas meal with them so obviously we have to make it for ourself more enjoyable if we want to share this to someone else so it's completely changed my outlook and we are much much happier of our y Heritage through k tyen look around there is no bam mdash yet we are still in a long and bitter gulus ER Israel is threatened in ways that are unprecedented there is a nation that's militant that's filled with hate that has us in their nuclear crosshairs there are Rockets still falling on a city called zro in Israel there are children who are scampering every single day when the siren sound trying to escape the horror of another hit there's so much that we could do to change this mat if I could just ask you to join with us and create a new to care about who are aranged from who live far far away from our communities who really have no personal connection at all with their Yiddish kite if we could somehow reach out to them we could bring the Gula if we could somehow use the tools that were prepared by project Inspire to create home cure of training seminars for you to host these seminars for you to sponsor these seminars for you to give us the information that we need so we can contact you and make sure that this becomes a reality then who knows we might be that generation that if we care enough to shed a tear if we cry along with the tears of AES if we take action today and if we do the things that we need to do to wipe away at here we will certainly be of the generation that contributes to the ban of the mdash and to [Music] theed oh [Music] how sh take [Music]