Rabbi Chaim Sampson Motzei Shabbos Speech The Project Inspire Convention 2021

thanks yossi and thanks to all of you for joining us at this international online project inspire convention and we're so happy that you've been able to share and enjoy benefit from the inspiration that we've shared with you and community over the course of the year you know our motto is inspire yourself to inspire others or inspire yourself by inspiring others we're all about inspiration but how do we stay inspired in these difficult times so the great prophet have a cook in the talmud says that of all the mitzvahs can be pinned down onto one principle sadiq sadiq lives through his through his belief in god what does that mean that means if we're connected to the fact that there's a being who's an infinite being who loves us with an infinite love with an unconditional love just like a father or a parent loves his or her children then we'll have all the blessings and all the inspiration of the torah you know in chabas we say we sing a song menuha the simcha internal satisfaction menuha a feeling of eternal goodness and joy comes on shabbos why because shabbos is a day of connecting to god when you when you're connected to god when you're connected to hashem you feel a sense of inner sense of manuka of of of serenity of joy it's like being in the eye of the storm the storm could be raging all around you but if you're in the eye of the storm it's calm and how do we have that feeling when we're connected to the infinite being and we know that he loves us with an infinite love he can have that calmness that joy that inspiration now the rabbis of the talmud tell us further that three things are acquainted with each other israel the arrests of the could the jewish people and the torah and god are one so we understood a little bit about hashem about god but we have to understand that if we connect to the torah as well that we understand that the torah is a is a is a guidebook for life the almighty's instruction manual on how to get the most pleasure out of life wow that can keep you inspired when you understand that in the torah it's all about digging it digging it everything is in it how to be happy how to have relationships how to have meaning how to have any to be a good parent how to to have a wonderful it's all in there from the creator of the universe to us an incredible gift that's the torah and the israel the jewish people we have to know who we are we're a people that are a priestly nation a holy people this is who we are we we made a covenant with god at mount sinai to bring morality and spiritual spirituality into the world that's who we are but it's a we come and we change the world as a people it's an us judaism isn't just about me it's about understanding as a people we're one nation we're cells in the body of the jewish people and that we're one and that we love each other and because we're all one you are me i am you i'll take pleasure in your successes and in your and i'll take pain in your pain and we're told that arctus having unity is where all the blessing comes the rabbis tell us that in the tower of babel when they came and they fought against the the world came and and made war against god they weren't killed why because they had loved each other whereas in the times of the flood where they didn't do such terrible things but they didn't love each other they didn't care about each other they stole from each other and therefore god wiped them out and we're told that in times of king ahad ah that he was a thoroughly evil king he brought idol worship to the jewish people but he was successful in his battles why because in his generation people loved each other whereas in the generation of david king david and king saul who were great righteous kings ah there was infighting there was lush and horror they didn't win their wars they lost their battles and so for us if we understand that we are one that if you hurt me and i hurt you back the jerusalem talmud tells me it's like if i one hand hurts the other hand the other hand hurts the other hand back i'm hurting myself if i hurt you i'm hurt like hurting myself we have to understand that we're one the verse in behold tells us when speaking about the blessings that the jewish people will have when they keep the torah tells us five people will chase an enemy of a hundred and a hundred will chase an enemy of ten thousand and the great commentator rashi says that doesn't add up if five chase a hundred a hundred should chase two thousand why is that why is a hundred taking ten thousand because the more actors the more unity we have as a people the more hashem is with us love your neighbor as yourself ani hashem when we love each other we have the power of the almighty with us so my friends i'm so glad to share the project inspire convention with you let's gain that inspiration let's connect to the almighty and his infinite love let's love the torah and appreciate what we have and let's love each other and if we have that we'll have all the inspiration for ourselves and please god for the whole of the jewish people enjoy the convention thank you so much