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His Perception; Your Reality
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Rabbi Kalish
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yash his mama his family's parents made
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so I was I Ubered to yeshifa
and the Uber driver was like a fine guy
and he told me he's relatively new to
waterberry and he said I have two
daughters and I look around at our city
and I'm concerned. I see people
struggling. I see a lot of drugs and I
want to ask you, what can I do to make
our city better? So he tells me, what
can I do?
What can I do to make our city better?
He said, I'm not silly. Said I only
could do 2%. He said 2%, maybe 1%. But
he said, I want to do something. He
said, "Last night I looked up the name
of the chief of police, the mayor. I
want to see like who here." He said, "I
want to go to a meeting. Is there any
citizen to gather who I could think what
I could do better for my city?
>> What?"
>> I was so touched. He said, "I used to
live in Bridgeport, AI, and there I saw
Avi said, in Bridgeport I saw
improvement and in Waterberry, I want to
see improvements." He said, "I'm raising
two daughters. I want to see improvement
in the city.
>> I was like very very touched at that. I
was touched at that. Like I felt like
ash a guy who's thinking how to make
things better around him. How to make it
nicer and better. I thought it was like
so in sync with the with the sash. We're
allowed to ask how can I make things
better.
There's
>> there's a lot of um there's a lot of
talk in the and certainly a person has
to find themselves for sure
>> but we're really here we come from and
that question how can I make things
better for others is part this
does something called
ask how can I make things better for
others it's a very natural question it's
a very comfortable. This guy was so not
a force. Chill, Larry. He was like a
comfortable guy. Very I was like so
moved. How could I knew? Well, we
started like talking the the way we
spent I really I brought a safer. I
planned on learning. I had a few phone
calls I had to make. I had some things I
wanted to learn. I had a safer with me.
But he was a this this a guy a wonderful
guy asked how can we make new how can we
make waterberry better? I was like so
moved. He's raising his daughters in a
city. No new. How can we make the city
better?
>> So kids are being an Uber driver.
>> That's what I'm talking.
>> Isn't that touching though? You want to
know how? Nope. He was like so serious
about it. This wonderful guy. How can we
make the city better? Nope. Nope. What
can we do to make the city better? I
just like that we're capable of thinking
big. We're come from
how we making the world better. How are
we making our city better? We're allowed
to ask not just a lad. When ask that's a
natural that's a healthy question. It's
a very very healthy question.
It was like
>> what you do
>> later on it came up. Later on it came up
it like came up later he right away
right away he said it was like on his
mind very like just but new what are we
doing to make waterberry better it's a
good question but I want to express that
we're allowed to ask these question new
we're allowed to think big we're allowed
to think it's not not just not a force
chill we're designed we're designed the
doing is not I agree with guys are
responding to doing to prove your worth
and people could do things in unhealthy
ways. Not from a place I'm good, not it
could be like compensation and then
people are doing you're doing too much.
That's a line I hear from kids today and
I know where they're coming from. I
don't have to prove my medal and do and
you're good. No, we're good. We're
and we have but let's engage. New what
are you doing to make Waterberry better?
I liked it. I like the question. I like
the challenge. I like we come from
Abrainu who like cared about this world
and was like there's a whole piece from
about like being a bum on the world. I I
sat in an Uber from a guy who was
thinking new what are we doing to make
Waterberry better? But he he Ari wanted
an answer from me. I was like what are
we doing to make but it's a good
question. We we we like spoke honestly.
What do you think we could do? We're
like spoken. What could we do? What
could one what could one do to make it
better? I was like telling him that I I
what I told him I live in like a little
community. I have a I have my own little
shoo my own little I said we have a
group. He said I admire your group a
lot. I see you guys care about each
other.
>> I admire your group a lot. He said he
visits Williamsburg once a year. He's a
restaurant he likes there. He said, "I
see those guys with the the things on
the side." He said, "They care about
each other."
>> No way.
>> But he wanted to know what what could we
do to make what I wanted to share this
with the that we're capable of like
making things better around us. It's not
it's a good thing to make things better
for others. We come from we're designed
that way. I don't want guys to see that.
It's true. people ignore
and a lot of like the revolution a lot
of guys are at spaces of like figuring
out my own and it's true sometimes I
could fix him and ignore me
they're all places we need to examine no
how can I make it better for him
to make things better for the next
person to make it better I could think
big and think like that that's I wanted
a
I wanted to share this with he
[snorts]
I'm coming I I'm coming very very sweaty
and drained. I was this morning to be
busy building a suka. I spent the
morning building the suka. It was
exhausting and physically tiring and
draining but such a beautiful thing to
be busy to be busy building the suka.
The typical minus is mighty kipper.
That's what claw do right after kipper.
So I want to express what I do. You're
supposed to build your suker right after
kipper. It gets busy with mitzvah and
you're supposed to build your suka. So
what I try to do, what I did today is I
built the whole suk, but it's not called
a suk yet. Al is called it's not a
kasher yet. It has no
>> this way. Might seem kipper then might
seem kipper. Y' wants to be busy
building a suka. You put on your That's
the task. [applause] I might see him.
Nice to see
my face.
But um
>> that's the
that's the you build your suka and then
might I was I this morning I was on my
mind on my mind was might say yum kipper
was mighty kipper because I was thinking
this morning okay you'll build a s
you'll leave the stock so I want to read
to you I want to read to you in a safer
I saw an account of the baritch of her
might kipper and I want to read it to
the kvra
I found it inspiring. Now don't get
I'm asking sometimes you hear big sadik
like okay we're not to this I'm just
getting inspired by the but I first want
to welcome
[applause and cheering] I want to I want
to say something
I want to say about
his father his father was a rebi in the
massa the first year that I was to be
involved in the massa his father was a
rebi in the massifa And I want to
express that his father is a person
who's a sadic last night punct I was
learning with my son nightser and your
father was learning with his son but
your brother night is sitt
>> Danielle a fellow a fellow another two
Daniels were at the same table but I
just want to express he's a we things
are put in the yeshiva his father put a
lot of sidkas into this yeshiva as far
as an saddic is a really really special
person. So yeah,
yeah, absolutely.
>> So just good Ellie Misha, it's good to
have you back home. Welcome back home.
[applause]
>> I want to I want to read an account
diary. I got from it. I want to read to
you an account of the baritch for mighty
Kipper. There's no I'm not putting
taking the the reason this morning I was
thinking about might kipper because I
was doing the suk and thinking that I'll
do this kipper listen to this account it
it's they say here that the raadesh from
kettz used to say this story
he would say over this mis every single
year and he would quote the kadesh from
tans the sons of who was and he would
say the following story.
He said that the Yeshua Yankeev when he
was young lived he lived by he was he
was sitting and learning the Yeshua
Yankeev before he became a RV and he was
he lived by his by his mother-in-law.
Yeshua Yanke lived by his mother-in-law
in the city of Yarislav.
So the Yeshua's Jacob was sitting, he
was in Kyle and his mother-in-law would
support him. He was staying by his
mother-in-law. Him and his wife were by
his mother-in-law in the city of
Yarislav.
He said one time the whole city shows up
in Yarislav. You hear the story? It's
they show up
for
and they see there's a Yehudi they don't
recognize. He had a hajim. had a
beautiful face mim and he's ding in it
was like a shock they whoever the normal
bil this year the people in yarislav
come to the shul and there's like a
beautiful
and he said
with his
with incredible energy he said
and the said kra with him so he dav so
nicely ly they asked him also. said
and they saw
was a holy man
and then they liked
because of his he says
because of his holiness and his
incredible energy
and he was like very
a year of
there was an aim of the s the whole was
like shaking. There was something about
the energized the whole sazin makes a
big difference. Anybody who was here saw
yakov bladder and and
like energized yakov bladder is here
from early in the morning. He comes five
six I don't know what time he's here
very I don't want to he comes very and
somebody's here to watch him dab and
then to like you see the makes a very
big difference and this in the city of
Yarislav was dabing with such a slavus
the whole sra was like on fire I was by
my many years
he like lifted up the whole sra his the
energy the chaos the seriousness the the
royalty. It was like an uplift to the
old sea. So this sadic in the city of
Yarislav is dabing. They don't know who
he is. And they're all like, whoa.
He said, listen what happened. Whoever
was sitting, Aaron, I'm so happy you're
home. Thank you for being Aaron.
[applause] Whoever was sitting, listen
to this, Arie. Whoever was sitting in
the misra, you know, there's the big
kashu on the misra vant. There's the the
hatch who was sitting in front of the
thing. Whoever was sitting there left
their spot like they felt like not
worthy to sit in the mis in front of
this. People are looking at him. He's on
fire. The misra vant emptied out except
for the Yeshua yakov. Yeshua stayed in
the muk because they were afraid to look
at his face. His face was on fire. They
were like nervous. They went to the
back. They left the from
after people went home. The sh emptied
out finished. I went home. When they
came in the morning, they saw he was
still standing in the same spot that
Saddak he didn't leave. And people
testified, people who slept in the B
medish that he didn't move from his spat
the whole night. Wherever he was
davening, he didn't move the whole
night. Famously
fue stood the whole and didn't sit down
even through the night.
>> Reportedly, even through the night, this
sadic in the city of Yaris, you hear in
the energy, he davis visiting saddic. He
ds kra. He ds the m and then he stays
for the
>> and then he stays by the um the entire
night. Didn't move. People who slept in
the base med said he was standing the
whole night.
>> He stood there until the morning. So
then they said
he dabed such fire they put him up and
you know who the was
>> it was the was the it was the it was the
no the
confus after
Sh
everything after
he remember he had been up the whole
night. So everybody wanted him to break
the fast by then. Remember he was a
guest in Yarislav. So everybody wanted
to break the fast. They decided that it
turned out he had come to Yarislav. He
was raising money for some cause. So
they decided they'll put it up to
bidding. Whoever bids the highest to the
staka that the baritra is raising will
get to have him. We'll all bid and
whoever promises the most money gets to
host the baritra might seem kipper. So
they started having a bidding and people
going hi hi h high high. The
mother-in-law of the Yeshua Yakov was
sitting in the Ezra Nashim. She's
watching the bidding. She had some
ornament that was very expensive was
full of jewels. She was a wealthy woman
apparently. She had some ornament she
was wearing. She threw it down from the
nashim for that was her bid and like
ended the bidding. It was like very
expensive. She throws the seed is like
comical from the nashim. She throws this
expensive ornament and like the bidding
ended like nobody could out bid that
>> orange team
>> and it lands in the base medish and
she's giving that's her bid. So all the
bidding stopped because it was like very
expensive. They must have like seen it
had jewels and pearls on it. It's like
okay it flies. I picture this feels like
I would look ifi was up there but like
flies down from as this fancy ornament.
So the she won the bard. She won. So the
bard goes with the Yeshua's yanke. He
goes with the Yeshua's yanke goes with
the bard to the m the mother-in-law's
house. They made he makes habdullah. The
bardicha makes alien. So he broke his
fast. He had a gl he had a cup of wine.
He made abdullah.
Then she had on the table. She had madam
delicacies,
wonderful foods. But the bar said, I'll
be honest. He said, I need something
that's mash of my doesn't do it for me.
She had like all these delicacies. He
said, could you give me something that's
mash of my I need and satisfies my
heart. That's not really what I'm
looking for now. I'm not like looking.
That's not what I'm about right now. So
the Yeshua's Jacob understood and
brought him a Garuma
and the Bard sat and learned
and in the morning he made a seam on the
entire
>> after going through Yamiper. He wanted
to learn
after remember he had been up the whole
night the night before.
He learned the whole night
and that that's this miser that he says
about now obviously obviously you're
talking about a very very big person I
wanted to express I wanted in our in our
own on our we're holding each of us his
own person the value of miam kipper
maybe maybe putting up a little for your
suka maybe banging a few nails. Some
people go and buy their dal minimum on
mighty kipper there such a but this
might kiper ya busy with mitzvah the
grow would learn muk
kipper because that was his
to build the suk I got to learn the
first he would learn the suk there are
different is but to be busy with some
mitzvah to go from and transition with
mitzvah
It calls the tour brings the medish that
is
the
yidden are busy with mitzvah after
is of mitzvah is doing mitzvah and to be
busy with mitzvah.
I wanted to tell the about this.
I wanted to give over the scene of the
mighty mighty where he makes and then
they want to give him food and he he
needs a
but the the
mighter I wanted to share with the it's
what I was thinking about this morning
because I'm think that I'm going to do
this on my kipper. It's a very very
thing to go. Minis the minhogam of cla
are very very precious and this is a
custom of cla that might say
might kipper yen go and they're um
you didn't go and they and they um
>> and they build the suk that's that's
what I wanted to I wanted to share this
min and there are many stories of
sadikim many stories miam kipper being
busy with big with big in Yanim the
picture the miter learning learning the
whole night I wanted to share with the
>> garislav
>> yarislov was the story happened there
with the yeshua yank
I wanted to mention as well that to take
to take seriously and people instead of
like mocking yen and and and like it's
easy to like tease the mig and the fancy
thing is to tease the mig that y didn't
ask from each other. Now certainly
somebody could say it sound guys have
asked me what does that mean you know
and and I'm not talking about doing
something lightly I'm talking about
we're a beautiful people that the
ministro is before yam kiper people ask
each other they ask a beautiful
yam kipper is described as a day of
great unity
we describe in our prayer it's a day of
great unity and the
beautiful that are that y come together.
Now of course because
and the Mishna says
Hashem's
we have to ask from each other but it's
a beautiful beautiful that people ask
that they work out their differences and
they ask is a beautiful beautiful minute
not to be mocked not to be made fun of
not to
that's a big thing you didn't ask from
each other I think it's like it's almost
like in vogue to mock the minus I think
it's a beautiful thing
I wanted to describe something about
asking ma to the ari that I've
discovered over the years I want to gish
and azie I want to share something yet
I'm curious what you think and I want to
talk about the s of asking to you from
each other because that's a we're coming
Sunday
will be kipper I wanted to talk about m
as follows. say it shouldn't be a mass
text like go
>> this if you babble to somebody
but I want to I want to you'll hear I
want to talk I'm not we can handle I
just firstly is notice a minute we're
good people don't mock what they're yeah
I know
that
right but I want to I want to talk about
the
and I want to share as follows
Every single person who goes through
something whenever you have with a
friend I have my narrative what happened
and you have your narrative of what
happened. There's a line when I do I do
many bikinas for the yeshiva. See the
iron I want you to hear. So when I do so
I ask a youngster about his family. I
want to get a picture of the guy. I want
to feel him. So I asked him about his
family. He says he has six siblings. One
of the hardest questions I ask, how many
siblings do you have? Because when
you're under pressure, you can't figure
out, am I one of my siblings? I'm one of
seven, but I have six siblings. It's
like a dizzying qu when you're under
pressure. That's like not a fair
question almost. A guy gets like but
then then I ask him what age are your
siblings? So this inevitably what
happens a guy says I have a sister who
is and he looks at mom like the how old
is she and mom says 23. So I explained
to mom and the kid I don't want to know
how old she is. I'm not handling her
right now. Later on she's probably a
wonderful girl. Tell me how old she is.
We'll think of a I want to know how old
he thinks she is. Why? And I explain
that your kid's perception is your
reality. Your kid's perception is your
reality. I want to know what's his
world. How old he thinks his sister is.
Let's say he thinks she's 20 and she's
really 29. So if she's really 29, the
parents have been sar for nine years.
She doesn't have a shock. They're
looking there's so much pain. He's
bliss. He thinks she's 20. He hasn't
gone through that pain. to him she's 20
he doesn't know for nine years I want to
know his story I want to know his
perception of what it matters
is Mayor would come here Shabbasus now
he's 11 when he was eight every guy in
yeshiva is like 7 foot6
when you're eight years old and you're
with the guys they're all like big and
good-looking everybody's 76 if you don't
know that he looks at you as 7 foot six
you're not living reality His reality,
his re his perception is your reality.
To an 8-year-old kid, every guy is, you
know what I'm talking about. To an
8-year-old kid, every guy. If you don't
that there are guys who look a little
aggressive, they think it's funny.
You're a 7 foot six guy to an 8-year-old
who to shalom zone comes here, you're
all seven foot. If you don't know that,
then you're not living reality. His
perception is your reality. You have to
know what he's feeling. Parents say to
their kids, a kid said reality.
>> What?
>> It's his reality.
>> Right. It's his reality. Right. That's
what I'm saying to parents.
>> It's his reality.
>> But but parents, our job is what others
are perceived has to be our reality.
Your kids's perception is your reality.
Cuz you have when a father will say a
kid said, "You always said you hated
me." The father like laughs. Ah, it's
not what happened. You're wrong. It is
what happened. Because if he felt that
that's a reality that's what he was
that's what
>> a father could like smuggly the kid said
you always said you hated me father said
I didn't say that I said that what the
kid saying you always said it he felt
something if you don't laugh smug that's
not what happened that's what he was
perceiving his perception your reality
in any single disagreement we've had in
our life with anybody you see it one way
somebody recently I called her. I s come
to my house. Somebody sent me a text
that was very painful and said of a said
a certain picture of something that
happened. That's not what I experienced,
but that was their experience of what
happened. When you're in an argument
with somebody, you have your experience.
They have theirs. You're not seeing it's
a Pella. If you ever like manage the M
is a a fight between husband and wife, a
fight between two partners, they have
two worlds. It's crazy the perception
now who's right. It's usually nobody I
don't think anybody's ever 100% right
ever. I don't want to say ever. It's not
usual in that's one of the hard part in
dealing with difficult people. So you're
not 100% right. I've had in my life
dealings with a very hard person. It's
actually very difficult because you're
not a you can't just say I'm right. You
might be even 98% right. But there's
there's another way of seeing it.
There's another way of seeing it. In
every single mus there are two ways of
of there's a perception. There's there's
an experience and two people's
experience. The problem always with
saying I'm sorry and you almost never
say I'm sorry well enough is because I
can't mamish see it your way because I
didn't experience it your way. Wow.
>> Every I'm sorry inevitably fall short.
It's very hard to say I'm sorry for this
reason. I'm not talking about the part I
admit. I can admit I made mistakes. But
can I admit my mistake is the way you
receive the mistake. I also know my
story. I also know my difficulties. I
know what caused it. When I the I'm
sorry you want is not the I'm sorry I
can give because I can't I just can't be
you. I can't I could say I definitely
could see I came up short. The way you
experience me coming up short, I c I I
didn't experience the way you
experienced it.
And I'm sorry almost always will fall
short because I know my side of things.
And as much as I could like try and I'm
thinking your side, but I also I'm
living I live my I don't live your side.
What I want to express in every I'm
sorry is since you're trying to hear my
side, I'll meet you halfway. I accept
your
I want to express Ari that accepting you
doesn't mean if you really get my side I
don't know if it's possible I can't be
you I'm not you I don't know if I could
ever like be so negated of self that I
mamesh I don't know I don't know I don't
know it certainly won't happen a lot
what I could say is that I really
understand and I see there's another
side and I made mistakes and if if you
see I'm making efforts to see your side
meet me halfway
I accept you meet somebody the
acceptance of and that beautiful
exchange if I asked means I really could
see there's another side to things
and I even like could understand your
your side of things I'm really sorry I
really apologize I wish I did it
different now could I ever fully see it
that way. Could I ever like I don't
know. But the art I think Moyo like the
art of m is we could meet somewhere.
You're coming at it yourself and like
saying I I give you a right to your
experience to to your way of seeing it.
I'm mammish. I'm sorry. I I you have a
different you see something. Could I
could I feel it your way? So could the
could I'm sorry bear enough the way you
want it because you're working hard to
meet me I'll meet you. Let's that's how
I see like ma go down.
>> We translate this with
>> what
>> I thought about that a lot. I thought
about that a lot. He wants to know in
our in our towards Hashem Hashem's
that he meets us. Maybe that's even I've
once thought it says Hashem's.
So it says he increasingly forgives. I
want to claim I want to claim. What does
it mean he increasingly?
He forgives. What's this rebu? So some
say it means by by by people if you
wrong me again and again again. I'm like
I'm not doing this. You've asked 10
times you keep going back. Hashem is
again and we mess up again again again.
I want I once thought that that Hashem's
marb is that if a person a drip he meets
us normally in you have to be halfway if
you mish don't even see mine you ask me
I'm I I want to ask
do you feel anything could you are you
moved a little to me could you give me a
right a little if the guy moves nowhere
in normally I'm not that's not even
asking you didn't ask means I wrong
means your perspective to a certain
amount. I I see your perspective means
if a guy if a guy asks police believe
seeing my perspective at all okay
it's not a I'm not giving you a right
for your perspective I want to claim
perhaps Hashem is marvelous
a person knows his own story say but but
in in a drip a person says you know I
have things I want to be I want to be
more true Hashem says he's marvelous
im meets us imish meets us we are the
person that drip is like epis epis I I I
I could see I I I want a little more's
marvelous life he meets us imamish meets
us in that place a person a person's is
a drip he's he's increasingly forgiving
he's marvelous life by a human being it
has to be a certain amount we meet
halfway but there's an amount you have
to go by Hashem it's like a neo to neot
person
epis marvelous like he increasingly
forgives
>> we can't even go we can't even go to
that amount with hashem he needs to come
further down like I can't even come
close to see
>> mask mask mask we don't know our own
greatness our own our own possibilities
so it's going to be you know I want to
be a little more t but epis could be
more tapped in she's marble he meets us
Mamesh Mamesh meets us there. He's
increasingly forgives what I would say
in two people probably wouldn't even go
that's that's I wasn't even coming to
like translate there. I'm talking about
two friends are am I describing in
friendship m what happens just in the of
the of asking
I want to I want to say this I want to
say that in this beautiful of asking
each other I want to ask the leave room
for another person's perspective I want
even say in yeshiva sometimes somebody
comes we've had speakers and I felt guys
were too judgy oh
how emotionally present. Leave room for
his perspective. Should leave room for
another person's journey. Leave room
another person. Stop being so judging of
his. Don't be leave room. He has his he
doesn't have his truth and his story and
his growth and his perspective. Really
leave room. I'm using the world of
Mahila to bring this out. Leave room for
another person's journey. I used to like
asking guys in yeshiva to say how they
got back to yeshiva that was like a
place everybody had the day we came back
to yeshiva their trip and their journey
to get here and their story
but I love tons there's so a lot I love
about Durham but I like there's so much
space for people yeti came the whole
yeshiva is going not yet the whole
yeshiva likes you it's like a buzz in
the yeshiva gut he's good you have good
energy you have positive energy What I
love about this place, [applause]
>> yes, what I love about this place is
there's really room for people. CDK
man's like impact a big person, a
growing person. There's really room for
[applause] people. I want to the m like
brings me there to ask from another guy.
What I have to do is say he has a
perspective. You can't ask somebody you
that means I wronged you. But I mean, I
have my story, but he has his. But he
has his. Could you see that he has a
different story than you? Could you
allow for a different It's hard to do
because you're involved, but allow for
his story. Allow room that he has a
story too. That's what I see as the s of
asking ma is give granting. I actually
think this whole minazi of asking ma
allows for this. Take any disagreement
you have with somebody even a person who
wronged you and beside I'm not saying
not to be mad but is it possible he has
a different narrative and a and are you
100% your he has his version and story
and experience the allowance for his
experience of it it doesn't mean to give
up yours I'm not saying we can't be
upset I'm not saying we can't have a
tina but can I allow him to have his
experience
Could I allow him to have his journey?
Could I allow him to have his truth?
>> Make space for his truth also.
>> That line we say Yiannis perceptions
your reality. Let him have a story too.
And uh that's what I want people when
when somebody comes here for any I don't
want anybody to be so arrogant. Their
their truth and story and journey is the
only truth. I want to go into any base
madish in the world and they're all
different type and appreciate that truth
of that journey
and somebody's there's an arrogance if I
write off everybody else's journey and
everybody else's story and everybody
else's perspective I smile and just not
at all not I actually I told the guys
starting today that I came here from an
Uber driver who was talking how can I
make waterberry better so it was like so
Nice to see this gentleman who moved to
a city, has two daughters, and he's
trying to make things better for
Waterberry. And I was like moved. He has
his story. His story. I'm like, and I
was like I was, can I say something? I
was humbled by him. I was very humbled
by him. You could get full of yourself
and yours. I was very humbled by another
human being who moved from Bridgeport to
Waterberry. He moved to the inner city.
He told me that he was in the parking
lot of Sears and he saw a 19-year-old
girl who was on drugs. He said, "I'm in
so much pain for him." He told me,
"Wow."
>> Told me it pained him. And he's like
thinking what he could do to make things
better. And whatever. Allow room for
another person's story and truth and
beauty and accomplishments. Don't write
it off. Anybody's Anybody's
I want to express that because Rashan
Kipper is a time of unity. It's a time
of like so we're on rash weem
we stand as a people
and as a unified people I like looking
around the shul during yum kiper and
seeing other people's beautiful journeys
and being inspired as well go around
whatever whatever the sh is look around
the room and see a beautiful group a
beautiful people beautiful space of
people with their own stories their own
journeys and then have yours by the way.
Have yours but make room for his too.
Allow for his. Make space is the coolest
thing where I ask on my fight with you I
say you know your you know your
narrative you're saying something. I
want to ask you I could actually see one
day every single person who will be
married. Your job's going to be to see
in a deep way somebody else's
perspective.
It's it's a very interesting thing in
sports like me when when when I would
get hurt in basketball my arm kills me
when somebody else gets hurt I don't
feel his pain
>> come on
>> so the tendency is come on like man up
>> because you're not living with you're
not living cuz his nerves mish we've
roommed that the guy's hurt I don't like
when people like discount somebody
else's injuries
the guy's hurt guy's really hurt the
guy's I like in professional football
and they all pray for a guy who's hurt.
I like that they stop the game and they
see his pain. It's not just clear him
off. We've had times with injuries in
yeshiva. I don't let the guys like get
him off the court and continue the game.
I don't like that. We're waiting a bit.
There's a place first. We're making sure
the guy's okay. We're not we're not like
because it's his. It's not just I'm not
so stuck in me. There's him. There's me.
There are others. Not to be stuck in
self. Mahila is a big suggest
of asking I think very big people are
able to see others perspective we're
talking about the describing asper
is to see another is to make space for
another
in in there's an inion there's an inion
to give a guy what he's accustomed to if
he used to have runners running in front
of him. Then you have to get him runners
to run in front of him. If a guy's used
to fancy, you're supposed to stuck by
him fancy. Now somebody could be
cynical. Hey, he doesn't need that. If a
guy's used to having people certain type
of don't be cynical his perspective,
that's what he really needs. You You
don't relate to that. You don't need
that. He needs that. It's funny and I I
want to say this. I'm not being critical
of anybody. Schools ask people when they
raise tuition, they ask people, "How
many vacations do you take?" It bothers
me a lot. I'm not trying to be critical.
Schools struggle with money. I don't
know the answer. It bothers me a lot
that they ask people, "How many
vacations do you take?" It bothers me
because you don't know. Maybe for that
family, it's death. If they don't and
the mash, if you take vacations, we
can't give you a break on tuition. is
Moshe. Maybe that family that that
vacation is for one family doesn't need
that for this lady. Maybe without that
their mamish wouldn't live. You have no
right to judge. Don't judge for your
whole life. You don't you can't judge
people financial state. What do you mean
they drive a nice car? Maybe this guy
without this car. You don't know
anything. Maybe this is
maybe this guy can't survive without the
fancy car.
>> Don't judge a guy. You don't judge this
guy might need that's his way that's his
maybe that gives him some relief. He has
so much I don't know you don't know
another person you're not you're not
you're very stuck in something you start
raiding well he takes vacation he
shouldn't pay less tuition no maybe
maybe vacation by him is like you don't
know family by family and it's it's very
I'm not saying what school should do and
everybody should give tons of money to
yeshivan yeshiva because yeshivas need
money and I'm not coming to d schools
what you say
>> understanding that side
>> right right Sure. But I want to say that
when you judge people, it's like
childish to start like assessing you'll
see in your life people that raising
stock and you say but he wears a nice
suit. Maybe that guy like mamish the
nice suits like he just needs raise
stuck for him. It's not a cash on him.
Don't have this big you're not
understanding somebody. You don't know
in his in his family when he goes and I
don't know I don't know what's
happening. It's not you don't know
anything. You don't it's not it's not a
good judgment. It's not a good read. He
has a different world and his own story
and his if you would know his story and
his situation and what's going on in his
home. You can't even weigh who's the
arrogant guy to like decide it. You sit
back. Well, they do vacations. They
should I don't know this family
vacations might be and this family
driving this car and everybody has their
own. What are you supposed to? We have
to figure we have to everybody has to
give generously. That's for sure. But
this point that each person is their own
perspective and make room for another
perspective in the ma it brings it out
to me. I think I think the days itself
are days of tremendous unity describes
it's a day of and one is sees another
nishama and there's space for your
story. Make room in the shuls make room
in our lives for another person's
perspective the asking m is wonderful
because to ever ask you says I want to
say I know you have a side of things m
and it's true I see it my way you know
you have a different way of seeing it I
really want to ask you and I really
could see you I could see your side of
things and I really want to ask now do I
see it as well as you do I don't and
that's where you're accepting my mas
you'll meet me you know I have a side
too we meet halfway
>> said
>> that's the
>> are we expanding that
>> the days before we could tap into a
space of of just understanding other
side like not just like only
>> I think because there are days of
anybody can attack us I think there
[snorts] such a
>> it's just saying
>> I think because there are days of there
are days like we go back to our roots
back to who we are so it's days of that
we can make room for him there's room
for me that's what I see.
It's a time of space
here. There's always space for you. I
appreciate that you're here a lot. A lot
a lot. How? [applause]
How old are you?
>> How old are you?
>> Got you just in the right time.
>> Oh, that's his perspective.
[clears throat]
>> Welcome home. Welcome home.
>> Mishla, how old are you?
>> 14.
>> Is that real? He is age. I'm just happy
we have you my
very [applause] lucky to have you.
Is your Is Miy coming to Mipper?
>> I don't think so.
>> Shucks. He's come some years with
Shashana.
>> Should I be coming?
>> I don't know yet.
>> I want to be. How about we make an MY?
[laughter]
>> How much you have to pay?
[laughter]
>> You ever heard You ever heard that? You
ever heard that Mitch? Oh, you heard
this
>> Mr.
I can't I can't
>> stop saying sorry to people like I don't
know like I don't remember exactly what
I did like try to like go to that
>> that's what means don't that what that
means don't just like I'm looking for
everything get to the bottom
>> I think it's like if you like it's a
real like sometimes you have a dispute
so I don't you probably not like some
people like get human beings sometimes
like have discorded disputes So Arab
kipper we ask like we we try to settle
that you know
>> I guess
>> I don't remember every dispute that I
had. So like should I go around asking
people like in you go around no you're
welcome you're welcome
>> I don't make fun of it's funny you
didn't do it to me it's like I don't
like making fun of it at all. It's nice
each other if you can remember and now
you didn't say I want to ask I might
have wanted
>> I don't know.
>> Yeah. Right. I might have done something
like
>> Right. Right. But if we could remember
then we have to
>> try to communicate. It's ultimately all
this is perspective. It's really about
communication.
>> It's about what you're perceiving
towards like someone else.
>> So like
>> the the deeper thing of ma is the
coolest thing that you're entitled to
see. I really see you. You experienced
something different than I didn't. I
want to apologize like I I came up
short. I could I could see your way of
seeing it. That's like the deepest space
of M. And it's cool.
>> Eie, thanks for being here.
[applause]
Also, and then the rest of the year,
>> thank you.
>> Me and
yeah, I'm making heavy pressure on you.
Who do stay, Abby?
>> You join me to stay for the year.
>> We are.
>> We are. You with me?
>> We need this.
You see that?
>> Okay.
>> I have an idea.
>> It's
>> really Somebody has to speak to the
Israeli government for us.
>> Abby Abby might have pulled. Do you have
business dealings with the Israeli
government?
>> We're figuring it out.
>> He needs to ask
you understand
Donny's home now. coming back after
>> guys are saying we should have a
football team and guys told me Donniey's
very good guys don't is that you knew
that
>> football team so
>> there's soccer also right
>> we're going to stop here
>> there will be I believe tonight there'll
be a little shishi do we know what time
a
>> today's Thursday Okay,
guys. Thank you guys.
>> Thank you,
>> Alisha.