Purim Farbrengen, Westfield, NJ, 2024 #2- Do you love your job? Rsbbi Chaim Dalfin

is I'm going to teach you a nigan I see there are some people from Russia from L okay so we have some people speaking over there maybe they'll sing with us instead of speaking okay yeah you [Music] ready before I go further I would like someone who knows the language to tell me tell us what it means please come on there's some there don't be shy tell us what it means l l l love love who doesn't want love Maya what's Maya my I love what do we love what do you love what do you love what do I love what do you love kco I'm telling you what I heard I'm not from Russia laa I'm from New York I really love my job oh maybe I'm not pronouncing it the way a real Russian or Lan says itco 1959 when my father slept together in by Block's father's room in Crown Huns my father came from Israel he was born in Romania made it to Israel he came and he looked for a bed to sleep in he didn't have a bed because he wasn't an official student in the Yeshiva in 770 so Rabbi bl's father set they became friends they saw each other they met each other come you can sleep here so he sleeps he sleeps there and then he comes to his other friends it's Thursday night in Yeshiva the Thursday night is made for late study and far bringing the faing is informal you know this is more formal but when you come to a realing with students in a Yesa it's a very informal environment and it's it's it's very loose and it's very open of course the alcohol helps but it really is a tremendous tremendous ability to to get into yourself cuz it's so hard to get in who wants to expose expose themsel no one who wants to expose thems we put up this facade right we don't want the other person to know what's going on at a faan a real faban a real faan where you're not looking at the watch you're here for the Long Haul 1 2 3 4 11 whatever you know so these are the type ofas we had in Yeshiva when I was in Yeshiva here marown you know the Yesa Mar rabinal College Thursday nights I wouldn't go to sleep yeah I'm sorry I would go to sleep 5: in the morning I was up all night learning of her bringing and then because we had to get up by 800 I laid down for a few hours the transformation of self somewhat somewhat a little bit abysal took place in those about 3 to 5 in the morning when you're amongst the guys you know you're amongst yourself so my father comes into 770 late at night he came to America to do three things you ready to find the job sorry in order to see theab that was his priority number two to find a job and who can guess what number three is find a wife exactly smart lady you don't got though you don't got a wife and if you do you better yeah so he comes into see he wasn't an official he worked he worked he used to come got Lu yeah he came he came to learnis in the morning came to learn philosophy in the morning before he went to work then he went to work all day and then a night he learned a little more or whatever he learned and then he went to sleep and and Dr BL you all know his father was a professor of PhD in philosophy Dr we called him Dr bl's room okay but Thursday nights he would go into the Yesa and he heard the song that I just sang for you or I just sang the first part for you what does the song mean I really love my job first of all I'd like to hear see by hand count some of you are retired or whatever but how how many people can honestly say and raise their hand that they loved the job that they did or are doing and they even get paid for it okay now I took the liberty of asking you this question because when I lived in LA and Dennis Prager spoke at the sparik temple on W on wilsh Boulevard Dennis asked this question to a thousand young people I was there and not everyone could raise their hand abely you know a can you say you love your job do you really like your job number two that you get paid for it I really I really love my job so my father comes in and he hears these his friends from Israel mother he hears them singing this song and they tell him he never you know he never he's not a Russian he's a Romanian but he didn't know the song and he says why you guys singing this to his friends he says cuz we love being Aid of the rebi we love learning and we love hanging out in 770 Yesa we just love love it my father says you're all a bunch of this is a Yiddish word Bank fetches a bank is a bench bench what bench what Bench Warmers that's right you guys are sitting learning all day enjoying the Yesa come out to the Real World come out and schitz and make money and all of that let's see you be able to say then then they said to my father you don't understand you don't really understand what is the job of a ye what's the job of a Jew to serve Hashem to make God happy to make Hashem happy with us right and now listen to listen to the way I'm going to sing it myself now and how there's a debate in this song you see aidic tune has a lot of depth to it whether it has words or doesn't have words listen for a second The Voice implies it indicates a question do I really love my job o do I really love my job sometimes I hate my job what is that sometimes I I love it and sometimes I hate it those are the it the eyes I I I you understand it's not just a repetition I yeah it has a meaning that's going on inside do I really like being a Jew when a bomb goes off in sabaro Pizza on King George you remember that I was there you were in The Pizza Store right right up the street right up the street you ask yourself do I really love being a Jew do I want to what kind of God is this October 7th what do we have to go back to the Saar God Hashem you love us what's going down over here we were prepared we weren't prepared he is to blame she is to blame it's all Baba say narish nonsense right where is God you have a right T ask the question as long as you know you're not going to get an answer there's nothing wrong with asking in fact it's important to ask because asking stimulates the brain asking stimulates the the Consciousness asking makes a person move and shake and bake if you don't ask you're like a dud is that you know like so asking is good so the migan the song [Applause] says that's a question and then the voice the second time we do I to the is Victory which means I definitely love being a because I have a soul I have a n and we see this now was October 7th everyone knows so many people that were LEF thiss liberals anti-religion anti- God have said at least there's a possibility of a God there's a possibility of a Torah there's a possibility of Judaism and many put on T as the rabbi said before started like the Shar candles on and on in other words the P I'm sure you heard it from the rabbi and the rebit in P the quintessential aspect of a Jew the the the soul you're never going to be able to remove the soul never Hitler couldn't do it the Spanish Inquisition couldn't do it can't do it no one could do it but remember what it says in the prophets the only ones that can do it is not can't do it but the only ones who can ourselves let's not be our worst enemies let's live with freedom let's live with with real love and this is the meaning of the song so what I'd like you to do now is to sing at least hum along with me cuz I really want you walk away tonight with knowing the song and and thinking about it and I hope I hope the rabbi and the sons and others will will sing it because I know I I've taught the song in many communities in ptoc Maryland and other communities and they actually use it you know at the kushim because it's very very therapeutic and you know it's not it's not my song I'm just sharing it okay so let's do it a little quicker and just hum along because if you don't know the words clap your hands I don't be shy raise your voices don't be shy raise your voices help me he help me