Los Angeles TESHUVA DRASHA 5782

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com thank you everyone for coming for this momentous event for the Los Angeles community I first want to say thank you to Rabbi Shalom is cirelli from the Rob maradasra of kahila denetora here in Los Angeles Pico Robertson opening up his shul and hosting Rabbi gladstein shlitha who has had actually a tremendous influence on my life and I have this house to have been introduced to him about eight years ago I was living in Crown Heights commuting to Woodbridge New Jersey an hour each way and I needed to spend my time you know worth a while so I tuned in to tour anytime I randomly you know played one of his theorem and I was mesmerized by the level of detail that every single step he makes in this year it's source-based and it's so clear and obvious to everyone who listens to this urine the level amount of time he prepares it's your I had an hour in the car I'm sure it took him 10 hours to prepare I felt like I was sitting in a bedroom Yeshiva so much information and I just so much appreciated it after many years I used to print out the comet and I would print it out anyone who knows me he knows in my suit pocket I have my is a lot I would review them you know at my sister's wedding I actually met the the rub of the Hassan and I asked him do you post any shirt online he says no absolutely not I believe in making a personal relationship with people when you post it online who knows who listens it's very you know who knows what kind of impact you make on people I thought to myself wow I said I shared this with my wife she said also that's not true look at the relationship with Robert Gladstone every time you have a question an Insight that was one of assure him you emailed them you message him and he immediately gets back to you I have a question with him I'm like yeah you know I think he's a very unique person that can actually you know connect to everybody at one of the fundraisers of his building he had achabadnik he has hasidium yes and they all appreciate and listen to Ashura I think that's that in itself says all you need to know about a rub like like that I want to thank some of the sponsors we had right here in Pico we had anche Ahmet as well we had also members from the Hancock Park Community and Israel of Hancock Park we got the mishmar Los Angeles mishmar and I also want to thank my wife my dear wife was put up with me she's in her ninth month pregnancy and and uh you know it was very difficult to say the least I'm not home I'm helping with the shabbatan and I want to say thank you to her because I really appreciate everything she's done and giving me the opportunity to have that relationship with the requesting and without further Ado I want to invite our glad student to share with us some words of Indiana before Rosh Hashanah actually sorry I basically finished to come to some a few words yes thank you good evening everyone it is a true honor to host foreign of any sort of Torah that serious and impactful it is specifically an honor to have someone that is very unique in more than one way you look up and this is again I mentioned this earlier that I've been introduced to him almost a year now the first time was right before Sukkot of last year when Yakov Tubi gave me the first stepper of magidara Kia and bereshit and said rabba you have to you have to get to know this person Rabbi Glatz you know who's about Gladstone and honestly in the short time that I've I've gotten to know him and especially since the moment that we decided together with that we're bringing Rabbi Gladstone Inn I've also listened to some of the audios that he has you look at Torah anytime and you have nearly staggering number of almost 8 000 shurin that's as far the the first one afterwards is Thousands lower and that shows a certain consistency that the person has to have even though there has been what eight nine ten years on on tour any time but still having that many shooting needs a certain consistency and you see the organized The Source sheets that he always has you know very well researched very organized put together very well and the delivery both if you read the Safari more you listen to this urim there's a certain sense of genuine Torah that emanates from the shurim the talks that Robert gladstin has and it's something very special that we don't find necessarily every day and I feel an honor to have become friends with him and I have his cell phone number we're gonna make over the phone and uh you know it's great to we actually walked in and Pico together and people said you guys are twins like yeah I didn't know I'm so good looking but Hashem says it's an honor to have Rabbi Glaston with us when you have you have brought to the community and his honor and privilege and pleasure to call upon everybody Gladstone to address us with some degree [Applause] [Music] foreign good evening everyone I've really touched and humbled to have spent such a beautiful Shabbos here and this kahila Kila binetara and in only a short amount of time well the Israeli has transformed this Macomb into one of the Premier makomot hathora in all of Los Angeles and it's really a pleasure to get to know my twin a little bit better we were separated at Birth and the reunion has really been touching and we wish the Rev continued here with his kahila with all his tamidim with uh the entire Community for many happy and healthy years I'm particularly touched by my dear friend Rebecca of Tubi who made this whole weekend happen I think the first time I realized how connected yaakov was to the shurim is when I saw he sent me a video of his notebook of the Maremma kamot and it looks something like I don't know a Law Journal or some kind of document from from in Windsor Castle you know when they coronated King Charles they gave him that thing something like that to sign or something but I appreciate uh the Yakov appreciates the shirim and my admiration and love to him is mutual and we wish him and his mishbacha and his wife a happy and healthy progeny busy this time of year perhaps more than any other time is a time of memories we're going to have the groin ice in the village of Rosh Hashanah we're going to say yes we're going to say remember us for life and for me personally the season of yamam naram is the time of vivid memories a time when the floodgates of memory are open wide you know tough Shin pay base has been a year of great bracha for me and my family Hashem but it was also very difficult year for my family first we completed a year of mourning for my revered grandfather Gladstone who passed away in his 106th year he was a holocaust Survivor he was an Auschwitz he was in Dachau he was in the crematoria yanked out in the last second he knew of Menachem zemba he was a student of ramanakam Zamba he knew the garoreba before the war he survived concentration camp he survived Nazis Germans he was a REV in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania for 70 years we could apply to him very aptly it's he was the pillar of the universe and then shortly after we completed the year of mourning for my other grandfather my mother's father Yeshua hershfang who has a very different background he was born in America he grew up in the Bronx in the 1930s during the Great Depression he grew up in poverty when the whole family had a sleep in one bed because they couldn't afford more in a tenement Department you have to know in the 30s in the Bronx there were 600 000 Jews but only 600 boys went to Yeshiva you understand what that means 600 000 Jews and only 600 boys went to Yeshiva the assimilation rate was astronomical and he had to overcome many hurdles and challenges to remain he came to Flatbush he's one of the founders of Rabbi Hillel David Shaw one of the renowned shows in Flatbush as a young adult he lost Hearing in one ear which meant he lost his balance but he always persevered and he would sort of stagger from basakinesis to basic nessus collecting money for Annie aretz Israel anyone who has ever heard me speak knows how often I spoke about my grandfathers and how much they meant to me and I tell you something when my grandfathers were alive when my grandparents were alive it gave me a sense of security they were my Foundation my bedrock and to tell you the truth it made me feel like a kid you have parents you have grandparents and with the loss of grandparents your security is shattered you feel you're a step closer The Haunting words of the usia became much more poignant the usia says that a family is like a mound of stones it's very secure that is when they're all present but as soon as you take one out all the stones are wobbly there's no security and thinking about all the memories and what the loss of my grandparents means to me I mean my grandfathers my grandparents were some of the most profound influences in my entire life and The Following comes to mind the gemara tells us the story of The Circle Maker and he was once walking on the road and he sees a guy planting a carob tree caruven now why in the world somebody would eat a carob is one of the great mysteries of life I mean do you eat the table you don't eat the table why would somebody eat a carrot but the guy was planting boxer and honey says to the guy you're planting a boxer tray I mean I understand that I'm here in La for one day I'm mesmerized by the trees I was asking uh Ruben thank you very much for taking me around what is that that Italian Cypress right I called the landscaper in New York how do I get one of those they said in New York 18 feet maximum and you can't get Italian Cyprus they have like something that looks like I already contacted but a buck surgery how long does it take to plant a boxer tree that's 70 years so honey you can be around for 70 years and the man responded I came to a world with a carob Tree in it if my father if my grandfather planted a carob tree for me then I need to do the same for future Generations and this is the feeling that I have that if I if we have been fortunate to have been the beneficiaries of parents grandparents great grandparents who were moisture net fresh they had great sacrifice to observe the Torah in very trying times so that we can be here today then it is our responsibility it is our acharyas it is incumbent upon us to make sure that we do the same for future Generations remember my grandfather he knew his grandfather his grandfather was a REV in the city of lynchets when the malbum sat in the city of lynchets and wrote the perisham album my grandfather's grandfather knew them album so I looked at my grandfather he took me back 160 years are we prepared to do the same and have the same impact on our children and grandchildren let me start with one of my favorite all-time stories I'm a big fan of Rabbi Barrow wine who's a very interesting personality he was a Rob he is a RAV rashishiva historian producer I had the privilege to meet him again recently and he often Tells over the story of when he was 11 years old in 1946 and he was a Ben yacht and his father says Beryl we're going now to the airport Chicago Midway Airport He says Dad who's in the airport so the great Rabbi is coming to the airport who's the rabbi Rabbi Isaac halevi Herzog Chief Rabbi of Palestine but the Herzog was an amazing personality a very aristocratic personality he has great shoevice and he would wear a shiny Top Hat he would hold a cane in one hand the Tanakh on the other and he lit from the plane and all the balabatim and all the Yeshiva students from the Skokie Yeshiva came to greet him 200 Boys in all and they escort Rabbi Herzog to the great shul and RAV herza gave a purple and Yiddish for 45 minutes and then when he was done he turns to the young man he says young men I would like to have a word with you and he speaks to them in English by the way Rabbi Herzog was a rabbi in Dublin so he spoke with a slight Irish brogue and he said I want you to know men that I just came back from a meeting with Pope Pius XII and I had with me the names of 10 000 Jewish boys and girls who during the Holocaust they were given to monasteries to priests to churches because parents didn't think they would ever survive and they didn't think their children would survive so they deposited their children at the doorstep of monasteries he had their names their parents names their original addresses and he said Pope they're our children now you're kidnapping them give them back give us back our children and the pope flatly refused the pope slams the door on Rabbi herzog's face he says all of these children have been baptized according to our religion once a child has been baptized they can never be given back to any other religion the children are ours Robert Herzog pleaded but to no avail and he left the Vatican Ray come empty-handed and where they hurt suck standing there in Chicago is so overcome with emotion that this great Sadiq this great going he breaks down on the lectern and he weeps bitterly he says Rabbi wine I was never so frightened in my entire life and then the rabbi defiantly lifts his head and his head is red like a lion and he Roars out to the crowd young men there's nothing I could do for those ten thousand children they're lost forever but what are you going to do for the future of the Jewish people that was the challenge Robert Herzog gave these 200 young boys in 1946. and Rabbi wine writes we've filed by Rabbi Herzog and he shook each one of our hands and he looked at us in the eye and he said did you hear what I said remember what I said what will you do for the future of the Jewish people and Rabbi wine writes that many times in his life he's discouraged he's despondent he's worn out he's tired but then he hears Rabbi herzog's cry ringing in his ears what will you do for the future of the Jewish people and that strengthens him that challenges him and that has shaped many decisions in his life and that's the question perhaps the most important question each one of us has to ask ourselves what are we going to do for the future of the Jewish people and for many of us the most important contribution we will make to Cloud Israel is the influence we will have on our children and our grandchildren so I want to share with you a perspective what is the power of the influence one can have on their children and grandchildren I want to share with you the comments of the safarno the greatness of moshabbin is well known was the greatest man who ever lived he was the greatest Prophet like he took us Adam it's Ryan he gave us the Torah he gave us breakfast he gave us lunch he gave us dinner for 40 years he brought us to the precipice of Earth's Israel he was the most humble man who ever lived the same way he was the most humble man who ever lived he likewise excelled in every imaginable character trait because I'll say Israel here's the million dollar question what was his secret you know what's the nakuda can we pinpoint the reason Maisha was the greatest person who ever lived is because of because of what was it his hashmada his what was the cause of it another interesting question is family Miriam and Aaron you're not too shabby not too shabby I mean whoever their parents were did a pretty good job Maisha kahengada Miriam hanavia that's pretty good that's a All-Star lineup over there what was it about that they were able to produce these three children listen to esparno says the svarna era he says an amazing levia lived all the others only lived 110 years Levy lived 137 years so not only did Levy teach his son Levy taught his grandson says esparno and kahus lived long so kahus not only taught amram and I'm Ram taught Masha says the swarnales foreign [Music] because he was the lucky beneficiary of seeing his great-grandfather his grandfather and his father and our Russia brought out from the svarna we see from here that the primary cause of greatness was the fact that he was able to gain not only from parents but from grandparents and from great grandparents in other words you know this idea that the Liberals say it takes a village to raise a child that doesn't take a village it takes parents takes the grandparents it takes great grandparents they say very good what does it have to do with anything yeah if you have a great grandfather like Levy and a grandfather like kahas then you could produce a family like that but that has no bearing on this generation what does that have to do with our generation so there's another Safar now this farno says impartialism on the words I will fill your days this farno says this is the great bracha of arijas of long life says esparno and what's the advantage of long life what's the benefit of long life says esparno so you could teach your children and your grandchildren may be further and then you too says esparno boyfriend says this Verno this wasn't an isolated bracha this is a broker that God promises and makes available in all times that somebody who is connected to the Torah can now be the beneficiary of teaching children grandchildren grandchildren and creating great Generations so if you are fortunate enough to come into this world do you know how your great-grandparents sacrificed that you should be here today do you know how your grandparents sacrificed that you should be here today are you willing to do the same for your future Generations you know people say when I become 70 80 90 I'm going to go down to Florida and I'm going to retire and I'm going to take it easy because after all my kids are out of the house that's the dream no those are the most important years of life that's when you have the greatest influence that's when people could your progeny may start listening to you you know what they say why grandparents love their grandchildren so much because they have a common enemy right but let's try to study and focus what exactly is the power of the influence of a father and a mother why does a father and a mother have such a strong influence on their children is it because they love their children so much and the children love them so much so they're more receptive to them what exactly is the influence of a father or mother so I want to share with you a personal idea this is a phenomenon that I've observed over the last couple years of speaking so I could I could give a 45 minute share an hour share and it's a prepared talk I know where I'm going I know the content I know the source material and sometimes I'll mention something completely agavorja with no intention to mention it just happens to slip in it's not even related to the subject matter I'll give you an example so I once was invited to speak in monsie to a girls Seminary and I figured I'm singing to a girlfriend you know you want to establish some connection with the audience so that they listen to what you have to say so it happens to be that the night before I uh was sending my I sent my daughter to Seminary and that was a Sunday night the Friday night before I sent my daughter to someone I'm a very emotional guy so I was standing there at the Shabbos table and my daughter is there and and I'm thinking you know I'm not going to see her for the whole year she's going to be in Israel and it was just so painful to me it was so emotional to me I just started crying and now of course I could not get through it I mean I'm you know don't think of me any less that's just the reality you know I'm very emotional so I told these seminar girls you know I just sent my daughter's Seminary it was very emotional for me and I was crying and then I gave the sheer uh this is the share I gave this morning about um you know manchuva and sure enough after this year and this had nothing to do with this year so one girl comes over and says you know that was such a powerful shear and that you cried that your daughter went to Seminary I wish somebody would have cried when I went to Seminary and you know by the way that's that itself is a very telling statement and I'm thinking to myself why is that what you remember from what I spoke about that wasn't the subject of the share I gave a 45-minute cheer about shuva was my shirt so completely incomprehensible and you didn't get one thing from what I said that the only thing that you remember from my share is the fact that I made the mistake to mention that I cried before I sent my kid to Seminary but that's exactly the point because the 45-minute talk was a prepared talk it's something that I organized it's something that I said it's something that I prepared but it wasn't me it was what I was saying but when I was telling them something that was that was me and people are not really listening to what you're saying they're looking at Who You Are something that you happen to slip in something that you didn't mean to say something that you said agavors in a certain sense is much more powerful than anything you're ever going to say you know people say oh yeah I want to teach my kids about Russian Hara okay I'm gonna take out the theim says that La shanhara is a good I mean a bad thing to do you think your kids are paying attention to something you're reading that's not who you are you're just saying words says the al-shek you want to influence your children you want to have an effect on your children you want to teach your children when it's on your heart then you can teach it to your children if you feel it if it's inside of you if it's coursing through your veins you could give it over to your children but if you're just saying words it will hit your kids eardrum and bounce off very often it's the unprepared unrehearsed off the cuff remark that is much more impactful than something you happen to put together and set over it's very interesting in Hawaii there's a certain credibility of mesia tumai then in terms of testimony then any remark that somebody would make you know only the testimony of two Jewish people Jewish males is admissible in a court of Jewish law if one man comes in oh we ignore it if a gentile comes in it has no credibility but look at Evan Ezra Simmons if a gentile is in the course of conversation happens to mention you know it's such a shame I was walking down the street and I passed by yonko's house and Jaco I this guy says Tony says yonko's not here anymore he passed away last week uh his wife could go remarry why we don't have two witnesses that your uncle died because the Gentile happened it slipped out of his mouth the uncle's dead so that has credibility that has authenticity that is genuine and you could take it to the bank of one Aid now it's amazing thing if let's say the Gentile heard two Jews discussing Yankovic and the Gentile comes in and say oh yonko's not alive anymore we don't believe him because he intended to say that and if you ask the Gentile what is yankel's status and the Gentile responds we can't trust him and if the Gentiles yonko's enemy we can't trust him but if there's no reason if it was just a random off-the-cuff remark that even a gentile makes that so and so is not alive if all the conditions are met this is considered one of the most powerful statements of evidence May seekumai and that is basically a very strong part of the influence of a parent because the Revy could put on the Blackboard do the a do B don't do c and nobody's listening to a word that anybody says it could be the biggest Rabbi okay a little bit if you have a real hush of a rabbi like everybody's all ears but in general nobody's paying attention with what people say people are influenced by Who You Are and your children see to my after another one off the cuff remarkab after the other what's your attitude toward Torah what's your attitude towards nios what's your attitude toward rabbonim and that is one of the most powerful influences in our life push comes to shove the traject trajectory of a child will be determined by the images in the child's mind of the father and mother think about Joseph 's a young man Joseph is a handsome man he's 30 years old he's in Egypt and every single day ashes poetifera she's wearing him down she's wearing him down she's wearing him down was on a certain day it was the holiday and her husband went off to the base titless and she's alone in the house she says she's sick and she makes an advance to your safe and she was very tempting and gazal described very graphically and vividly what a great challenge it was to Yosef and don't think Joseph just sort of jumped out the window and no was about to do it and the gamara gets even more graphic iron shun how close you always safe was to isai Mesa and in the last moment he didn't do it What stopped him a Muslims he once heard in Yeshiva you're a shamayam What stopped you're safe the image of his father the picture of his father that's something we all have to understand and recognize that push comes to shove one of the most powerful influences in our children's life is what picture do our children have of us oh Dad Dad is always on the phone he always has the fun everywhere no matter what Mom Mom's always on the phone mom's always shopping mom's always buying shoes dad's always in front of the big screen dad's always in front of a safer dad takes his mid so seriously when Dad says Amazon it's something important to him when somebody says you know could you and Dad's benching he doesn't go no you can't talk to him on his ventured it's important to him you know the story goes that the great going there's a family in his community where one of the boys was kidnapped and taken to a monastery and the parents could not rescue the child they cannot get their kid out of the monastery and they tried with the legal measures and they pled to the judge and they couldn't rescue the child and Years Gone by the boy was kidnapped at age four he's now 10 years old and there was a new judge so they petitioned again and the judge was a little bit more sympathetic and the judge says listen look I hear what you're saying you haven't seen your kid in six years I see the documentation used to have a kid and this kid is now 10 years old but the church says this kid has always been there so I think this is fair the judge says we're going to give you five minutes with the child if in five minutes you could convince the child to come home with you then he's your child but if you can wrestle him free in five minutes you can't convince him in five minutes the kids can remain in the monastery so the parents had some degree of Hope but they were very anxious what can you do in five minutes so the great going the national said okay I'm going to accompany you and the fateful day came and the parents head into the monastery and they turn around and they're the great going the nah khaleshka was there and he's dressed in white his white kittel for Yom Kippur and he's wearing his white yamaka and the parents are wondering what exactly is this Rabbi gonna do and they're standing face to face with their child the parents don't even know what to say they turn to the rabbi the rabbi doesn't say a word the rabbi starts to hum a tune he starts humming the conduit right and the boy is like Frozen like in a trance like what world did he hear that tune in and the parents are looking expectedly at the child and like time is Frozen what how will the child react and they're only two minutes left and the Rabbi says to the child do you do you want to come back with us and get this world and the world to come or do you want to stay here forever and the boy like jumping out of a dream jumps his parents he says get me out of here take me to the shore that I heard this tune I don't want to stay here another minute it was that image it was that Surah of a Yom Kippur tune that made the impact on the child the wicked Menasha Menasha served every single Idol in all of Earth's Israel he put idolatry throughout the land and in the end of his days they took Menasha they put him in a pot and they were about they were cooking him and Menasha didn't know what to do so Menasha and the Deep recesses of his mind what inspired Menasha to do chuva he said when I was a young boy I remember my father read the plus look but when you're in distress and you find yourself in difficulty you could return to Hashem it was the verse it was the pasak that his father taught him when he was a little boy that's what turned his life around this is the kayak that a parent has to create Vivid memories in the in the mind of the child that the child should remember how my father davins on Russia how do you make kidish Friday night that image should be seared onto the heart of the child how do you say how do you fulfill a mitzvah how do you conduct yourself in the basakinesis these should be images seared unto the heart of the children ultimately this is the biggest impact we will have on our children I remember about I don't know seven eight nine years ago I had the privilege to speak in a community in the south in Memphis Tennessee so it's right off the Mississippi River you could go to the Bass Pro Shop you go up the tallest freestanding elevator in North America you could look down on the Mississippi River and you could see Huckleberry Finn sailing on a little one of the highlights of my trip I met an elderly yid he must have been in his 90s his name was Joshua Kutner which that name alone shocked me because my grandfather was a tamilrobe in my great great grandfather was the time he this old yet in Memphis was named after him and he told me one of the most powerful stories I ever heard he was born in 1920. his father came from Warsaw his mother came from Galicia they were in New York in the Great Depression his parents were so poor that at age 13 years old he had to support his parents so he would go to the ice cream store cover it with dry ice carry it on his shoulders go to Lincoln Terrace Park where the trucks were parked at red lights he would sell ice cream to the truck drivers at the end of the day standing outside in the Blazing heat he would put together one dollar a dollar was like a week's salary in the times of the Great Depression and he would bring it home he said we were poor but our abeam and Yeshiva khai in Berlin were much poorer they couldn't put food on the table the wealthiest people on big businesses had no money had no business to do they sold buttons apples shoelaces just to buy food a quart of milk five cents loaf of bread two cents the New York Times one cent which is basically what it's worth one day the principal of yeshivakain Berlin called me into the office he said your father owes six bucks for tuition the robin went on strike if you don't come back tomorrow with six dollars you can't come back many many boys were sent home from Yeshiva they went to public school and they were all lost forever make no mistake about the critical importance of Yeshiva education the mo not the most important thing the only thing you could do to raise the Jewish Family in today's age the Yeshiva system we didn't know what to do we didn't have silver candlesticks to sell my mother didn't have a diamond ring to sell my father owned one bad suit one ugly suit that the jacket matched the pants mom said take it to the pawn shop maybe you could get six bucks and you could put the kids back in Yeshiva dad went to the pawn shop he showed the guy the suit the guy sits a piece of junk he said give me six dollars for the suit the guy says we're three dollars and thirty cents ultimately the pawn owner gave dad six dollars dad gave me the six dollars and he put us back in Yeshiva this was one of the most moving experiences in my life now me and my brothers understood what Tyra meant most others were not as fortunate had we gone in a slightly different direction we wouldn't have children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren who are even Jewish today my father never had money to buy his suit back but he got something back instead the Republican gave him five generations of Torah observant Jews wore eight big day Kahuna a regular clay in war for Priestly garments our family also had big day Kahuna my father sold it for six dollars it was the best six dollars we ever spent the choices the decisions we make reverberate Beyond today reverberate beyond our lifetime the decisions that we're going to make today and what kind of house we have what we bring into our house what we allow our kids to watch or partake of they will make a difference for our children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren and if you're here today and you're observing today that's because for dozens and dozens of generations your ancestors gave up to ensure that you would have Jewish continuity are we willing to do the same for our future God does not just judge the living He judges the Dead why in the world is God judging the dead on Rosh Hashanah the guy is buried he's sitting there peacefully in hermanus he's Six Feet Under he was judged the Rashana before he died he was judged when he died why is God judging him every Rosh Hashanah what could he be doing wrong sitting there being fed to worms one though he went like that to the guy next to him move over you know it's a little crowded over here what could a dead guy be doing wrong already that he's judged on Rosh Hashanah there are months and tougher issued rights that you light a yard side candle on Yom Kippur why says for the Mason Mason don't do anything wrong there are masses and systems say yes girl why we need more kappara for the Mason Ashkenazi need more capara but why do Mason need capara in fact there are more rights in the dark emotions why do Mesa need kappara comes of Yeshua Heller he lived from 1814 to 1880 a student of David tevel who was the student telegrind here you have a really great guy his whole life he lived with yirat shamayam he came to shul early he was an honest person he took care of his wife he took care of his children he was kind to people he went up to shemaim and they gave him a nice spot on the corner a corner property with Italian cypress trees in the front and the palm trees you know the real the thin ones with nice leaves there's a nice property in Canada and then the next year Rosh Hashanah gets a knock on the door he looks to the people there's an angel there and what's doing review you're moving where am I moving you're moving to exclusive Gane then so why why am I moving if you're getting a promotion why do I get a promotion because you had two children and look they also come early to show and they're called and they're raising very observant families and they're raising honest children and grandchildren and that's because of you that's because of your influence but the guy says but I already was rewarded less yeah but this is residual income that you didn't have last year so now you're getting a promotion and then the following year they take him they say you're moving it where am I move you're moving to The Hamptons of Gane then why moving to The Hamptons because now you have great grandchildren and they're sending their kids to Yeshiva and look how they dive in and look how they learn and look how honest they are and look at their Middle East and that's all because of you so this Sadiq is going from one level to another and just because he passed away he's just getting going he's just first collecting his income and then there was another guy and this guy was not so hot he used to come for like part of this Villa part of that Phila he came part of the trailer he stayed in bed so and he didn't really do Midfield so properly and he didn't really treat his wife properly and after 120 he got you know his own shim they put him in like a self-cleaning oven a little bit for a couple hours and then they gave him some reward they gave him some like beat down apartment and like the Lower East Side somewhere you know with a bad ugly lab there are roaches knocking on his door but look he had a place to go he had a place to spend time at least he had a bed the bed it was a feather pillow the pillows where the feathers were flying out of the pillow there was mold in the walls every hour the old carbon monoxide alarm kept on going off but he had a place to sleep listening what are you gonna do next year Rosh Hashanah there's a scary guy looking at him through the people the guy is dressed in red you're being evicted where am I going you're going to Harlem why I'm going to Harlem well you know you spent half the diving in yours and the other having the bed but your kids they tried both and they said the bed is much better so they're not going at all so we have to unfortunately evict you you're going to be living in Harlem now and that's in year two and in year three they move the guy to uh the floor of the subway station because the trajectory of his family was downward says they told us Yeshua person's actions reverberate beyond their lifetime and then in a footnote I'll be sure Heller says one of the most astounding things he says you know that Menasha in the end of his life like we mentioned he did shuva but the chuva of Menasha is only recorded and safer it's not recorded and safe for malachim why wasn't it recorded in malacha so the yahushua quotes a safer he calls it a precious safer of Shalom who is a contemporary of the ram Khan one of the few gidolum who defended the ram Khal he wrote a safer called the munas kahome and he says on the passage that for God to judge one individual he needs to judge all of mankind why does God have to judge all of mankind to judge one individual says shalom because he can't just judge one person but what I do affects the guy sitting next to me in shul and that affects the guy behind him and that affects that person's children and those children affect their classmates and their classmates affect other friends they have because every single time we do something it actually reverberates throughout the entire world and for God to judge any individual he has to scan the entire world just to judge you does not record the chuva of Menasha foreign it's very nice Menasha said oh I'm sorry I'm sorry I bow down to Idols very nice but the rest of the Jewish people were still bowing down to idols so Menasha could try to do chuva but he can't really repent because his actions are still reverberating around kaly Israel but says that was after the first place was destroyed and all the idolaters were killed and Now menasha's actions finished their reverberations and then and only then can this tuba be accepted and that's why menasha's chuva is is recorded in and not malachim furthermore says Yeshua malachim was written by yemiya yermia was alive during bias reshine was written by Ezra in times of Ezra already was nullified should end and now finally menasha's chuva could be accepted foreign why did you wake me up so here's the story shmuel was dead he was buried Nabi Samuel was stuck shows within a Rock and Hard Place the Philistines were advancing Shaw had already killed all the diviners all the necromancers he had no one to communicate with the urin batumen wasn't answering him he didn't know what to do he had no choice he felt he woke up small from the dead and nigamara says when shmuel was woken from the dead he was so scared he thought that God was summoning him for the Judgment of Rosh Hashanah and he got scared he got terrified whoa schmole afraid of so what is Rosh Hashanah he made it through all the Rosh Hashanah of his life he made it through the din when he died why would he be scared about a Rosh Hashanah after he died already because Apostle says because his children didn't follow his ways and therefore he was scared that even though he made it through last Rosh Hashanah but is he going to make it through this Rosh Hashanah to his Aid because the gemara says there's a contradiction between the first four books and devaram in the first four books it says that God will punish a parent for a child but what if it's not the parent's fault so in Devore if it's not the parents fault you can't hold them accountable and the matter says God says you know what am I sure you're right about that if it's not the parent's fault then we're not going to hold the parents accountable so shmuel needed to summon Maisha to defend him to say this man shmuel did everything in his capacity and whatever his kids did it wasn't his fault and he did his best so the Moshe Feinstein owl ass don't sit in school and clap our great and I'm a big Sadiq and let my kids do whatever they want chuva more than yourself worry about your future it's not it's that's owl that's Rosh Hashanah that's Yom Kippur you could deal with your own repertoire but the Eternal repertoire as I mentioned my mother's father grew up at a time that assimilation was rampant talking about okay you grew up in America in the 1930s the parents could have come from background any background the kids on the streets and other the parents spoke one language the care the kids are in public school no yeshivas aimed by yourself at least one mess ain't bias we say aim bias is not like almost that's real it was a reality but my grandfather had a grandfather he was a spirited Jew what did he do he would prepare for Shabbos he would shine his shoes for Shabbos until he was sweating he would be ready for Shabbos well in advance so that he was wearing his best in advance preparation for Shabbos and then he would sing Allah and when he would sing karibine the roof would Shake and the hislavus of my grandfather grandpa I don't know that he was a renowned Taurus Sage he was a regular working person with great fervor for Shabbos and when he would sings miros you could feel it in your bones and that hislavus entered my grandfather's bones and that kept him as an early my grandfather's grandfather's name was michulum Feist and I could just imagine every Rosh Hashanah they knock on machine's door and they say you're getting a promotion I haven't been around in 60 years 70 years what did I do no it's the same Curry bind that we came to you about last year so you have a great great grandson gladstein he has kids you know they dive in pretty nicely but that's because of you 70 years earlier so you're getting a promotion and if I have a little bit of Hiroshima I am it's because that I would go every Arab Yom Kippur to get a bracha from my grandfather and he would put his hands on my head and he would put a white cloth on my head I still don't know why and he'd put his hands on my head and he would cry bitter tears wasn't a rabbi he worked on Wall Street he was a righteous holy Jew he would cry bitter tears that I should have Yara shamayam and Ava satara says for this one's heart should tremble when we think about all the actions that we do in this world will outlive you the way you Daven today we won't be around forever but the way you dive in today will be around forever because it affected the person next to you and the guy behind you and your your family and your community and all of Claudia Israel think about in what direction are your actions Hashem are they fruitful then they will be holy forever but if they're bitter don't think okay I didn't have virus up I'll give an accounting for it no you're gonna give it lidar Vietnam man while you're still alive don't be blind you have to look into the future are you going to want to have to run around to everyone in the world and say no don't pay attention to my life ignore my life you want to have to track down every single person that your actions had ramifications on Yeshua Heller what you do in this world makes a difference what you do today makes a big difference what you'll do tomorrow makes a big difference life counts life's not a joke life is important so what are you going to do for the future of the Jewish people you can do a lot start with your children start with the guy sitting next to you in Shoal start with your neighbor because your actions reverberate beyond your lifetime what you do how you act the decisions you make will make a difference forever and ever [Applause] thank you thank you you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com