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R' Chanan Gordon The Law of Attraction Project Inspire Convention 2023
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so here we all project inspired 2023
the last day and before the sun sets and
before the curtain comes down
so there's one thing that I'd like every
single person to leave this Con
convention conference with and that's
the one thing that we can control
and that's our minds
so the topic today
is a concept called The Law of
Attraction
is this a Torah concept
so before we do anything
the underlying concept we're going to be
talking about today is how powerful the
mind is
the best way I think
so you guys would appreciate how
powerful the mind is
is by way of illustration so here's what
we're going to do
I want everyone in this Hall
hopefully in unison
to say the word silk
s-i-l-k
seven times okay together one two three
sulk sulk sulk silk silk silk silk okay
fantastic and what do cows drink
okay cows drink water
so why is it that there's a knee-jerk
reaction that immediately after hearing
silk is seven times that we say milk
there's a thing called the illusory
truth effect the illusory truth effect
says that if you repeat something three
or four times
ostensibly from a credible source
something amazing happens
that you get so used to a certain
syllable you get so used to a certain
concept that it's as if you lose your
critical thinking
and you become an automaton you just
blur things out this is used in the
advertising industry this is used in the
entertainment industry and this is
basically was the theme of mate talk is
how people just drink the Kool-Aid and
they don't think anymore it's
unbelievable I'm on campus a lot
speaking to a lot of these mishagoim on
campus
about things like men falling pregnant
and I mean this is the 21st century
when you stand in front of these people
and you say just can you tell me what
can you tell me what you mean by that
they have no clue
they're drinking the Kool-Aid they're
listening to the Clinton News Network to
CNN and all they're doing is parroting
what they hear
the power of the Mind
so as a speaker and someone who's on
Radio and on podcasts there's another
concept called theater of the Mind
which is why radio is so powerful
because you can't see the person but you
can create something in a person's mind
I want you to Picture This scene ladies
and gentlemen
a big black limo
tinted windows
the limo driver let's call him James
dark glasses
James is in our big black limo tinted
windows dark glasses
he's driving down the in New Jersey
what's the main road yeah
Turnpike
oh
no street lights street lights are off
Street no street lights on black limo
attempted Windows the door glasses
street lights off he's moving down the
New Jersey parkway at about 85 miles an
hour and a one of the offrams the hero
of us sorry little Moishy is playing on
at the side of the road with his little
ball the ball rolls out into two the
road meantime James is still whooping
through the exit again door classes
street lights off two feet away from our
little here a little Moishy
James cranks on the brakes
how did James know why she was there
dark losses and tinted windows Street
locks how did he know that Moishy was
there
it was broad daylight
so fear to the mind as soon as I said
the lights street lights are off what
are you thinking
it's dark right that's the power of the
Mind
okay
so by just using the illusory truth
effect and the concept of theater of the
Mind
we we can appreciate how powerful this
thing called the mind is
the law of attraction
was made famous by a Australian woman
whose name was Rhonda Byrne
she wrote a cult a best-selling book
called The Secret
it's an absolute marketing ingenious
idea
and basically in a nutshell
the secret
apothecated the following premise
and this is in essence the law of
attraction
that people can really get all the
things they want simply by thinking
positively about them
the essence of what you are saying is
that you can make your mind into a
magnet
and if you're thinking certain positive
thoughts you can attract those positive
things into your life
and this became a crazy cult that got
secret workshops secret badges secret
insane she made millions and millions of
dollars so what I'm going to pre what
the question is that we should ask today
is is this a Torah concept
that if you think there are positive
things that you can attract those things
and in essence by by having a positive
mindset you really can control your
destiny to a large extent
so the reason why
that concept is antithetical to Torah
and it's complete clearer
is who knows more what we need ourselves
so the Rhonda Bryant the secret is
premise is you get what you greed
and the college boxer says I love you
too much to get what you greed I'm going
to give you what you need
if you're thinking positive things and
say it's got just think of myself I can
see myself winning the lottery how do
you know about being a billionaire that
that's going to be good for you
every single person in this room
according to the Village has been here
before
even his time we can prove positive you
can assume that you are a gilgal of some
form if anyone in this room has ever had
a Deja Vu because they don't have a deja
vu in this room you you've had this
feeling it was a Sunday morning you're
listening to an unbelievable lecturing
staff have you ever had that feeling
what is it a concept according to to
minisfying the deja vu is that Schmitz
of albinia before
we don't know why things will happen to
us when people come to the rebel and say
robot why is this happen and the rabbi
attempts to answer that that's insane
because we really don't know why
Karishma does things
but the notion that you get what you
greed is completely narcissistic it
places the ego it places the human being
at the center of Destiny and that that
is not a Torah concept why because the
center is and it gives us what you need
and not what you agreed there's a famous
quote by George Bernard Shaw
which basically says that the two great
tragedies in life one when he's not
having your prayers answered and the
second one
is sometimes God forbid having your
prayers answered
the almighty will give you what you need
and not what you greed
let's let's just peel this back a little
bit in terms of the difference between
the Law of Attraction which says if you
think a certain positive thing you make
your mind sort of into a magnet and you
contract anything that you're thinking
versus the idea of truck Goods or Zine
good which we're going to talk about in
a second if you think good things you
can attract certain musal to your life
what's the difference between thinking
positive things and thinking certain
things which you think it can happen and
you can change your destiny versus
having complete trust in a college park
let's let's see the difference by citing
a certain
certain basic sources in Jewish thinking
into hillim just to translate some to
him we say one who trusts in Almighty
kindness surrounds him
again I'm just translating Loosely
fortunate is the person who puts trust
in God
why is there the belief and this is
axiomatic to be to living a Torah life
that if you trust and you surrender to
our courage Baruch
that it it will be good where does this
where does it come from philosophically
axiomatic to everything we're going to
talk about is like who loves you that
there is no such a thing that can be
imparted from the almighty that is bad
and therefore if you trust
basically what you're just doing is
you're opening up the purview for our
courage to give you the bracha that he
wants to give you the best analogy I can
think of is you've got a little moisture
a three-year-old kid who's sitting on
the bed and he thrusts himself into his
mommy's arms do you think he doubts that
his mommy's going to catch him
on a very simple level it's the same
thing with a college party if you tell
her I trust you I have no idea how I'm
going to pay the mortgage I have no clue
how this
and you so-called thrust yourself
puts himself in a situation where he has
to catch you
because you imagine having that kind of
trust and getting disappointed time and
time and again would explain the
difference between that and being so
much on a nice you cannot rely on a
miracle but it's the same concept of we
are babies in terms of
and it's really letting go and trusting
and that's when you can make sure that
there's certain things in terms of
kindness surrounding you
let's go through some of the other uh
sources the Zohar for example says right
simcha is something that will also
attract certain things that be that
having adverts won't when we had the
times of the Naveen
any other prophets couldn't have said
if they were depressed
again physiologically neurologically and
emotionally there's certain things that
open up when you're happy that don't
open up when you're not I can tell you
as a speaker as a when you're in when
you when you when things are going and
you psyched and you pumped you're in the
zone things happen you just say things
it's the same thing when it's exactly
the opposite
there's something that's very real about
the way does not only physically but
spiritually so the concept of really
surrendering and giving up to Shem and
and and if there is because
the power of being a basimha
notwithstanding the fact that every
single person who walked into this room
today has pain
every single person who walked into this
room has a pickle
and every single person that walk into
this room at some point in their life in
some way shape or form has looked
heaven-bound and said Hashem why me
the reason that I know that is I've been
speaking for 20 years I've yet ever in
any Forum said to the following if
there's anyone in this room whose life
is a complete a cakewalk that is wakes
up every day and he's psyched and who's
married is perfect has millions of
dollars in the bank that doesn't have
any dysfunctional kids please stand up
I've never ever had anyone stand up
Baruch Hashem
because the rambam says there are four
levels of pain in this journey called
life
the most benign level of pain according
to the rambam is financial pain
it's a pusher it's awkward you stress
out I'm gonna pay that's the most benign
level
the next level up which is
a more acute form of pain
who is health
that's something money can apply
the level up from Health according to
the rambun is vicarious pain
the best way that we can understand it
is the pain that a parent has for a
child
there's not a single conference that
I've been through in the last not a
program I've ever spoken to in the last
I don't know how many years where a
parent doesn't come up to me before they
open their mouth there's a tear that
Wells up and I know they're about to
talk about something about their kids
Rabbi what do I do about I know exactly
what's coming that is the penultimate
level of pain what is according to the
rum bum and according to all sperm the
quintessential the biggest form of pain
a person can feel in this journey called
life
it's indifference
no pain at all
that was the inish that was the
punishment of the nachash in the time of
Adam and khada the the snake the
so-called snake had everything he had
his food he could he could crawl on his
face he never had any reason to look
heaven-bound that's not a reward that's
a punishment
there's a certain physiological
condition I'm sure these doctors here
today where a person literally doesn't
feel physical pain I met someone who
told me that they have this makra if
they put their hand on the flame the
only reason they know that their hand is
burning is I can smell the burning flesh
no pain is not something that you want
the Gamora says by the way very clearly
if you go 30 days in your life without
any pain it's not a good thing
again if you wanted to talk on a very
deep level it's a concept called the Tim
Thomas takes a step back
ain't a good thing
okay
let's move on to
the fact that we just we started by
saying the secret posits The Law of
Attraction where Rhonda Burns said
essentially that make yourself into
think certain things that you really
want and that you can attract that into
your life and therefore you can change
your destiny we ask is this a Torah
concept we said no why because the
notion in the secular world
if it is to be it's up to me it's not a
Torah concept because we believe it if
it is to if it is to be it's up to he we
say that the concept of the Law of
Attraction puts the person in the center
whereas should be in the center we know
we spoke about yesterday the tourist
starts with The Bays it says inspiring
because there's something before the
Torah and that's an aleph we are not the
center of the universe
runs alive however we're going to Pivot
and this is where I would like to spend
most of our time does that mean because
the law of attraction is not something
that's in sync with the Torah concept
does that mean that that we don't
believe in the power of the Mind
let's talk about some examples of the
power of the Mind purely from a secular
perspective and then we're going to
dovetail into a total perspective
there's an experiment that was recently
done at Stanford University
where the the people that volunteered
said they told them they'll involved in
experiment the person who was
carrying out the experiment told the
students that volunteered for this
particular experiment they're going to
be blindfolded and what's going to
happen is we're going to take a paper
clip the professor said we're going to
take a clip and we're going to put it
over a flame and after a minute or two
we're going to take this paper clip and
we're going to just touch your arm and
it's going to burn a little bit
that was the experiment and I wanted to
see how they react
there was no paper clip
there was no burning they took a pencil
when I took their pencil and they
touched the person's arm a little burn
mark appeared
how does that happen
the power of sarcus Romania
the power of the mind is something very
powerful
we represent a number of very famous
athletes very famous celebrities you may
have heard of the most decorated
Olympian of all time a person by the
name of Michael Phelps
if you look at the Olympics and you see
Michael Phelps ascending up to the
little diving board you'll notice that
he's wearing a headset and he's
listening obviously to Rabbi Gordon
Shear him there's no question
he's listening to he has certain images
that he's listening to subliminally that
he's listening to something but in his
Mind's Eye he's hitting the end of the
pool he's hitting the end of the pool
Michael Phelps told I told Mark Spitz
who told me Mark Spitz was the pre was
the preceding person whose record was
broken by Michael Phelps that there's no
question in his mind
that there were certain times that he
won by like 1 16th of a second it's all
in the head it's all the power of the
mind is insane
another example just in a second and
then we'll pivot to this to the Torah
they were I represented many Pacquiao
for about a couple of years many pack is
a very famous box so probably the best
known boxer outside of the United States
he was a world champion eight different
I have no idea how this happened
obviously a college park knows that I'm
a speaker and set the whole thing up
we're at the at MGM in Las Vegas the
Holy City in Nevada
and I'm back I've been the in the in the
whatever the back area there's only
myself and this guy Freddie Roach
Freddie Roach is his coach
I have no idea how this happened some
guy got through security
so you've got to understand when you
gloved up there's not much you can do
right you've got these big buttons on
this you're just a little bit of
hamstrung someone got through security
and handed
what did it had many but how did Freddie
a brown envelope I mean there's not much
you could do right
I was standing right there Freddie took
the envelope opened it and just took it
out enough for many to see that it was
divorce papers
from Jinky to Manny
man is probably the most talented boxer
in the history of the world I sort of my
own eyes he went out to fight Bradley
who was not even anywhere nearly he was
absolutely clobbered and killed had a
terrible fight how did that happen
the power of the Mind
how many people do you know the notion I
get to Austin's often isakusamania is
something that's real
somatizing something is very real
a study that came out recently at
Harvard University said about 67 percent
of Melodies medically are all
psychosomatic the power of the Mind
there's no question that the the mind is
the most powerful organ in the body
that's from a secular perspective what
about the power of a mind from a total
perspective
do you see in the Torah
any big
planning the
themes of the protagonists of whatever's
happening
do you see in the Torah when avram is
about to shaft his own son does it
discuss that he was freaked out
that he was taking Prozac does it say
that anyway the Torah
there is nowhere in the Torah that talks
about emotions that's not what the Torah
is about there is a place there's one
place in the Torah that talks about
emotions and the only reason is because
it's supposed to teach us something
where is the place in the Torah it talks
about how someone was feeling you don't
know how the Patriarchs are feeding you
don't know how the Matrix are feeling
there's one place in the toilet says
where how someone was feeding and that's
the greatest person in the world if they
will and never be a greater person than
moshara bainu let me paraphrase the plot
in the Torah to hopefully underscore the
power of the Mind from a total
perspective
we know the famous story where moshira
bainu went out he saw an Egyptian man
striking a Hebrew and he he killed much
more complicated than this he killed
this Egyptian
and he has the possible I'll translate
into English
Moshe became frightened
only time in the Torah you'll see the
explanation of how he was feeling and
akaresh baraku doesn't play games is not
a single not as drop of ink that is
built in the Torah that is not there for
a reason it's there to teach us Moshe
became frightened and quote okay I'm
just translating indeed the story has
become known Moshe was concerned that
para would find out that he killed this
mystery and that would be the beginning
of him being thrown out of mithrim etc
etc and did that happen
para hood of the incident
and he sought to
slay emotion and Moshe ran to Midian
number for him say the reason why uh
Paro heard about this is because that's
what moshe's number one theories
the notion that if you fear something
that can become realized is a Torah
concept I'm going to tell you something
now that's gonna that's gonna blow your
shadows off
do you know the story of Joseph who was
thrown into a boar
is there anything in the Torah that is
Superfluous or redundant not a drop of
ink that is is spelled for no reason
again Loosely translated it says that
the brothers through Joseph into the
boar and it goes on to say that the bore
meaning whatever this cave was was empty
and it had no water
if it was empty some mail that had no
water why is the Torah telling us
something that is superfluous
decent question
then before she says something very
interesting
even though it was empty
it had snakes and scorpions
how comes the bomber
then before him say that boar is like
your mind
if it's empty
and it has no water what is the
personification of water from a Torah
perspective
if you have an empty mind and it's
thinking of things that are complete
nourish God not related to Torah you
will have snakes and scorpions you're
opening yourself up to be thinking of
things that are not exactly good for you
this is the reason why you came to
project Inspire because this is going to
change your life Weinberg used to make
us promise
people in the Inner Circle that will
need Nursery very well we had to learn
things off by heart
so we had to gather off barhat there was
never a time that I was walking through
the Rover and never a time I was walking
anywhere in my life without causing a
pasok in my head an empty head is a very
very dangerous thing because this is the
source that will tell you that your mind
will be full the snakes and scorpions
and what that is what that is in in
colloquial terms is not positive things
when when people walking and they don't
know why they feel and they just don't
feel good about themselves their
subliminal thoughts that you're
attracting that are coming into your
head that are not they're going to bring
you down how do you make sure that that
does not happen you supplant that you
supersede that with a positive thinking
and that's why positive mantras work
that's why positive affirmation works
and that's why every a single person
sitting in Madison Square Gardens today
is going to have something that I want
you to learn off by heart if it's as
simple as per se whatever it is you
should never walk through any place with
an empty mind the Navigation says
the most famous talmud of the viola gone
he said if you're ever in danger
if you walk through a field and you're
seeing 17 people come to you with knives
with 15 tattoos and three and they're
not there to wish you show me like him
if you say Ain or milvado you will not
be harmed
the same concept I know someone first
hand who was going through passport
control and realized in the line they
forgot their passport
this person was saying to him and he
said I said just say this
came to the front of the line and the
passport control person stamped his book
up to him and he said go
the power of the mind you full yourself
with certain sort of things because why
because it's an optical illusion
this whole thing in this world is an
optical illusion I want you guys to read
a book called Breakfast in America it's
the premise of how you understand who
God is and it's an unbelievable thing in
the book The Breakfast in America the
author writes himself into the book
and he's sitting in the bar on a stool
and next to the protagonist and next to
the main character and the character
looks at the author and he says oh my
because he realizes the author with a
swipe of a pen he can just write him out
the story that's Baruch
people think he's it's an automatic mode
the fact I woke up this morning
I'm here for a
College parking is with you and if he's
not winning the fact that you hear an
unbelievable lecture poof it's gone
that's the concept of our College baraku
when people say you know I eat out
certain fish because maybe Hashem he's
there he sees he loves you the concept
then again of the power of the mind is
very much axiomatic to a Torah concept
if the greatest person in the world a
mushrooms emotions it can in effect make
something happen if akaresh Bach is
telling us that an empty mind the boar
in the case of Joseph that was that had
empty and it had no water water meaning
some kind of Torah it was filled with
snakes and scorpions that's the lesson
for all of us that if you have a fellow
or empty mind it's a dangerous thing it
has also say one of the most dangerous
things in the world is a person who is
lazy or person who's not doing anything
it's not a good thing if you're too busy
it's a fantastic thing because if a
person is indifferent and they're just
cruising you're not going to attract
very good things so let's pause for a
second we start off by saying what's the
law of attraction
in the book called The Secret it pauses
the notion that if you think certain
things that you really want you can
attract them we send from a Torah
perspective that that is not the correct
Point of Departure because we don't make
ourselves in the center of the universe
we make our courage we said if you
surrender to a college park and only
one's good
and it's like a little baby jumping off
his cots
who basically is going to say I have to
help this person because they're
completely relying on and that's for us
pedagogically the best way you should
think of it we went on to say does that
mean because the secret the law of
attraction is not a Torah concept does
that mean the power of the mind is not a
concept we said absolutely not we gave a
secular example of someone being burnt
by a pencil we then went on to talk
about the Torah we gave the example of
Moshe rabenu and of Joseph I want to
talk about also The Power of Words
has anyone have been to a magic show
what does a magician generally say
before he pulls the bunny out of the
head
Abracadabra do you know is Abracadabra
some weird word
it literally what does it mean in Hebrew
the bear
if you look at what Abracadabra means
he's created and he's spoken da bear
the power of the words is something
unbelievable if
a person has a certain disease we never
say the name of that disease why do we
say
because there's a part The Power of
Words is something that's very real
what's the source in the Torah of The
Power of Words
to take into the art there were two
kinds of animals what kind one was tame
another was tahor one was pure and the
other one was so-called not pure if you
look at the passage in the Torah what
does it say if you look at the
Commodities
as well is that it doesn't say tame it
says what it says
The Power of Words is huge and that's
one of the reasons why
never ever for the rest of your life
when a person says moishi how you doing
people just blur things out it could be
better it's not so good be very very
careful
be very very careful
I've seen it with my own eyes how did
the almighty create the world
with words what's the basic difference
between a Homo Sapien and animals it's
very very powerful what you say be
careful not to say something alike if I
see this person I'm going to rip their
off
I've seen it with my own eyes is telling
us that what the second world it says is
completion it's the exact opposite
Sticks and Stones can't break my books
but words can have a Harmony it's the
exact opposite I have unfortunately been
too many situations mediating between
husband and wife because of words they
harm and they multi-generational I have
unfortunately officiated far too many
levias where I see brother and brother
is sitting together and they haven't
spoken for years the power of saying one
thing that can divide families that can
split people up is the Power of Words
something real you better believe it's
something very real let's talk about for
a second The Power of Positive desire
just thinking positive things
in a direction that a person wants to go
they lead him who's the they why is it
plural
it's the one time the yetzahara and the
8 to 12 work in synchronicity is the
power of Desire that there's nothing
that can come in front of ratson is a
fundamental concept that gazal talk
about where do we see this in the Torah
we see this in the case of Basia
the greatest person that has ever
suggesting the world is in a basket a
little baby he's got his pacifier on it
and he's cruising down the Nile River
and it says very clearly it says in
schmoise it's in the midrash it says how
far was Basia from the basket it says
basically it was 10 hours you know 10
hours is about 90 feet
and she stretched out her arm and she
reached the basket and brought a Moshe
rabenu into safety is that at all
possible
this is the concept is we do we dress up
we suit up we do the best we can and if
you have that bright sun and you really
believe it can extend you beyond
That's The Power of ratson
again I've seen this time and time again
it's something that's very real anything
people the Torah is not a history book
it's not if it first is out of sequence
completely it's the instructions for
living if I cut it is telling you that
this is something then real rest assured
that it's something real and that's one
of the reasons that
one of the jobs of the Yates O'Hara is
to bring to a person into atswas to to
depression why depression because if
you're down that's when he's got you
and that's one of the reasons why and
I've seen I see this and I counsel
people all the time if there's something
that keeps coming up in your mind's eye
that voice that says your schmendrick
that voice that says why am I the only
person here that's single the voice that
says why don't I have children don't
engage in that voice because the minute
according to the commence for him
revolver talks about as soon as you
engage in this discussion you're gone
when that voice comes in your head and
you're sitting and hearing an amazing
lecture with a gorgeous South African
accent and they're saying this is
unbelievable and your heart starts
beating because in a couple of hours the
curtain's going to come down and you're
gonna have to face your life because
project Inspire is going to end and you
hear the voice saying but what about the
mortgage what about my this what about
my sugar maker husband
don't you you can say that's very nice
fantastic we'll discuss that in a couple
of hours if you're sitting here and
you're going to have that dialogue in
your head here's one
again this is behavior modification 101
but that's his job his job is to try and
steer you and one of the most powerful
things that you can possibly be is be in
the moment
this will never ever ever ever happen
again in your life this is one of the
challenges of this generation because of
social media and the proliferation of
Technology it's very very hard to be in
the moment
there is no question and I'm going to
say something which is going to sound
bizarre because you can ask me about
your bahira I'm happy to discuss it that
every single person that's here today
right this second sitting in this room
was meant to be here
there's some reason a college park I
want you to come to this lecture I mean
this is only decent lecture obviously
but
there's a reason why you hear I have no
clue what I'm going to say that
potentially will have will touch your
soul I'm hoping that there'll be some
way we can grow together
but but if you hear and you're thinking
about the mortgage or you think about
your auntie SD you're not here there's
some reason why you're here and for some
way shape or form they can change your
life okay let's make a summary and then
I want to say something that every
single person can do because we've
covered a lot of ground yeah number one
we said
the Rhonda burn pencil penned a book
called The Secret the underlying premise
is the law of attraction that you can
think certain positive things then you
can want those things to happen we said
is that a Torah concept we said no why
because that makes you the center of the
universe as opposed to college we do
believe that if you open the veils so to
speak that you surrender could
understand that everything that
akashbark does is good that by trusting
and deferring to our College you can
make sure that good things happen we
said if if the secret is not accurate
what does that mean in terms of the
power of the mind we gave second
examples of how the Stanford experiment
burnt a person's arm we then pivoted to
a tour perspective we used moistura
bainu as an example of he's being
frightened and that's what happened we
use the example of Joseph in the bar the
fact that boar had empty no no water but
it had snakes and scorpions we then went
on to talk about the power of the words
abracadabra we said that imposters we
say we didn't went on to talk about the
power of ratson and we said that that's
something that's very real and then
there we're going to talk about now
before we take a questions we're going
to take we're going to talk about the
power of a positive attitude
so one I'd like to get two volunteers
Jonathan you wanted them whether you
like it or not
two yes ma'am
you're up
because that's one thing Jonathan I'd
like you to come back take a look at
that red dot there we live streaming to
2.4 billion people like that
take this
okay what I'd like you to do is just
stand in front of the camera
this is your big break
and I want you to read that poem with
the expression
from the word today
convince me but there's something good
in every day because when you take a
closer look this world is a pretty evil
place even if some goodness does shine
through once in a while
satisfaction and happiness don't last
and it's not true that it's all in the
mind and heart because true happiness
can be attained only if one's
surroundings are good it's not true that
good exists I'm sure you can agree that
the reality creates my attitude it's all
beyond my control and you'll never in a
million years hear me say that today was
a very good day America Has Talent
ladies and gentlemen big round of
applause unbelievable beautiful stuff
okay Jonathan by the way the reason why
I'm called Jonathan up is besides being
an amazing guy I'm going to give him an
una best plug daily giving have you ever
any of you've all done again this is the
god
beautiful concept there's no reason in
the world why people don't give money to
Daddy giving and to the Quran Gordon
trust fund I mean same thing Jonathan
I'd like you to look at the back they're
live streaming same poem there's no
trick there's no bunny I'd like you to
read this poem from the bottom up same
poem
I'm sure you can agree that it's not
true that good exists only if one
surroundings are good true happiness can
be attained because it's all in the mind
and heart and it's not true that
satisfaction and happiness doesn't don't
last while some goodness does shine
through once and once in even if this
world is a pretty evil place because
when you take a closer look there's
something good in every day and don't
try to convince me that today was the
absolute worst day ever ladies and
gentlemen a big hand of applause
same poem I'll give you copies of this
poem what's the difference
attitude
with the difference between seeing
something as helpful versus half empty
the one underlying theme of gratitude of
attitude relies on gratitude it's
absolutely impossible for a person to
have a character of Isaac for telling me
a beautiful story as he walks in here
about the concept would be markets of a
charisatov what happens when we wake up
every single morning
we have no right to say that it's coming
to me the entitlement of the I
generation is completely the antithesis
of a Torah concert
really we spoke about this book is a
grammatical Oddity it should say we
don't use any because we are not the
center of the universe here's the power
of gratitude the story is told
of a blind man who's on the side of the
road with his hat out
and he has a cardboard that's written
that's penned today is a beautiful day
and people from time to time are walking
past and they're throwing a quarter into
this hat
and he has a shuffle it's a certain type
of walk and understand that if the
almighty takes away one of your senses
your other senses are accentuated so the
concept of hearing is more profound in a
person who doesn't have scientists yeah
he feels the shuffle
and he smells the the mo the the smell
of a Sharpie one of those does markers
and he he he feels that someone's taking
the he sign and writing five words
and it puts the the uh sign back next to
the Hat
and two minutes later
tons of tons of coins start coming into
these hats and he sees people stopping
and throwing coins in and from the
trickle of coins suddenly his hat fills
up within minutes
at the end of the day as the the work
day ends he he has that same Shuffle
and he says sir
are you the person that took my sign
that says today is a beautiful day
and I smelt that uh that marker
and you made some you must have added a
few words suddenly after that everyone
started giving can I ask you
what did you write on my sign
and the person said your sign said sir
today is a beautiful day I just added
five words
but I can't see it
and that triggers the sense of our
karasatov when people walk by past
someone who's missing something that
they have you have a so you have this
feeling of a tremendous gratitude to the
Almighty
every single person is sitting in this
room every single person that came into
a project inspired has something that
most people in the world do not have
and that's the edition of Sharma
there's a planet called
0.02 percent
are Jewish
the biggest gift the almighty can ever
bestow on a mere mortal is a Jewish soul
and out of that 0.2 at best 10 percent
or even in the Parsha of sitting on
Sunday morning listening to an
incredible lecture and understanding
that there's meaning and that there's
purpose and this is not all a random
happenstance the gamorus is very clearly
in Sanhedrin that every single person in
this room it talks about balichuba but
it's no Gaya to everyone is hand picked
from the almighty to be his ambassadors
you in this room are the princes and the
princesses it's up to people in this
room to carry the torch to the Next
Generation we should well up with our
Karas at all we've been bestowed with
the greatest gift that Almighty could
ever give anyone as the curtain Falls in
a couple of hours on Project inspired I
want you to go back to your respective
communities and understand you being
given the greatest gift that Almighty
can give someone and I asked you and I
ask you one thing only share that gift
share that gift with the disenfranchise
brothers and sisters that are not too as
fortunate to build a project inspired
convention it's been a terrific Shabbos
it's been a wonderful convention I thank
you all for your time thank you for
listening I'll take any questions but
thank you for listening