Rabbi Chaim Sampson - Did We Get the Message? Project Inspire Convention 2025

good to V everybody did you have a good chabas we did as well thanks to you and while we're on the subject of thanks I'd just like to take a moment just to thank a few people but first and foremost my team headed by Rabbi yasi fredman and let's just have a round of applause for rasi unbelievable what this one man can do it's amazing it's amazing but just thanks to the whole team and just a few names to thank rakov giner Lauren levit Rabbi morai trop Rabbi Yoni zakutinsky Mrs K AA Miss Kayla laski Miss kova Cohen Daniela Hass amongst many many others of course we thank our founding director Stuart Heyman and Andrea who's not here but we thank her as well thank you for everything that you do you know on my travels around this interesting country the United States of America I've had occasion recently to spend a few doing sessions at a at a at a sh in Kingston happens to be no no coincidences here aabad a really wonderful place and I happen to have D there a few times recently and when I was diving there recently at the end of Marv there's there's a fellow who all of a sudden burst out crying I had no idea why and it turns out this fellow's name is moris Schneider he lost his sister and brother-in-law October 7th and he was crying because his niece and great nephews were still h mes and he didn't know what was going to be with them he came back recently after the kavur in ER Israel Shiri and her sons and he came and he was in sha and I went over to him and I gave him a hug and I said Maurice I don't know you so well but I love you like a brother and I try to feel a little bit of your pain and if there's anything I can do for you I'm here for you and he said to me that means so much to me and I'm going to take a little bit of my heart a little bit of my heart and I'm going to put it in yours and then we embraced and that was a feeling of love and closeness that we had for each each other but ladies and gentlemen we know that what happened in erit Israel it started because there was infighting between the left and the right the religious and non-religious and Hashem said if you're going to fight I'm going to send you to the front lines but I'm not going to let you fight brother to brother sister to sister that just can't happen and the question is did we get the message are we coming out of all of this after all this time realizing that we have to love one another Torah and more than just loving each other but I think we learned from Steve G today that your love has to be so burning that you'll be prepared to run towards the enemy because you love the Jewish people so much but for us it's much easier we have to run towards our brothers and sisters who we love and just show them a little care a little warmth a little friendship the ability to listen to be there to share the beauty of what we have with our fellow Jew you know I was walking with my son recently and he asked me ABA what do we learn from a puzzle and I saido well don't you know it's muber 48 ways number 22 erim take as he would say conquer frustration and as R Noak used to say that you know what stands between you and greatness frustration the ability to take frustration stands between you and greatness and he said you know we the way to take frustration is to enjoy it to enjoy it enjoy frustration and he would say each one of us has bought a little box of frustration that we've enjoyed what is that a puzzle and when you buy a puzzle if it's just got three pieces there's no point to it if it's 20 100 maybe a thousand pieces now that's going to be a lot of frustration but you're going to enjoy it what's the pleasure the pleasure is the creativity the pleasure is in the clues the discovery the Kish that's the pleasure it's the pleasure really of meaning sometimes life is that puzzle and sometimes it can be hard but some maybe that's just a clue if it's hard there's a lot of real pleasure and growth and development of ourselves in heent in that and he would say a further step that there's two types of puzzles there's a puzzle that you don't know if you can solve imagine having a r Rubik's Cube and you just don't know if it really comes together would you really give it a shot and then there's there's a b type frustration which is a puzzle that you know if you know the Rubik's Cube can really work you'll give it a shot and you'll enjoy it r no used to teach us that anything that he asks us to do to do is the FR is a b type frustration that we know we can solve ladies and gentlemen we've learned together we spent shamas together we know we have to share the beauty of what we have with all our brothers and sisters we have to unite we have to love we have to be in as the chief Rabbi of Russia told us RAB Lazar amain we have to say Amen I'm in we have to be in we have to take action we have to run towards our friends our our the Jewish people and do something ladies and Gentlemen let's do that let's together it's difficult there it's a puzzle but bezem let's with unity run together let's all of us in this room take that action together with arus let's build the picture the beautiful picture let's create it together of all of the Jewish people coming together with Aris Israel understanding the beauty of of the Torah that we have and the tremendous love that has for us and we will see the