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replacements. Now, what does that mean? You heard of the stat war? I want to explain the stat war and and and tell the something like this. Oh my gosh. Welcome home. Welcome home. >> Thank you, Yuri, for being here. In baseball, there's a new stat. It's called war. Wins above replacement. What war means? If you have a catcher who bats 270 and hits 15 home runs as a first baseman, he's not that good. Your first baseman is supposed to be hit much more home runs, have a better batting average because it's not a big defensive position. As a catcher whose main job is defense, and gets banged around, that's way above average stats. So a catcher who bats 275 and has 15 home runs his war is very high. What does that mean? If he would leave what you would get in hisstead would be much worse. So he could not be you can have a first baseman who's better than him but his war his wins above replacement. How much am I explaining it right? Azrael how much he's worth to the team is better. >> Yeah. compared if he would leave how much your job is not it doesn't they figured out in baseball it doesn't really matter how good you are it matters your war your wins above your replacement it matters the position you play and other factors also who they can replace you with and the players with the highest war are the best it's such a cool stat you hear the stat Ellie called war it's cool stat because people compare to other people but Your task is not his task. Where you are, you're the best person for your job, for your task, for your space. Your war is the highest war. Because if you wouldn't do it, the replacement's very weak. So people compare to other people. I'm like, "But he does this better." But but your job's not his job. For what you for what you do, you're the best man for your job. I like the war. I like what war says what it is cuz our job we all every single person has their own mission in many ways comparing to another person is like so silly. It's nonsensical because you have two different you two different positions. If you would compare that catcher to the third B an outfielder but center field's a big fielding position but let's say left field is the weakest for whatever reason is considered the weakest fielder typically if you compare the catcher to the left fielder it's ridiculous because their jobs are different. So you say well he's not as good as him. He's a catcher. He's a left fielder. War teaches wins above replacement for your job. You're the best guy. the next one won't do it as well. We're all equipped for our situation used to like beg us and don't copy, don't imitate, don't compare. It's not a race in if anybody knows about Josh in law school, it's very competitive. In many law schools, grades go by curves like the grade really is if you get a 60, but it's the highest in the class, you're 100. If you get an 80 and it's the lowest in the class, you're a zero. It's graded. It's a curve. You're competing with other people. That's how law school works. In some secular institutions, you're competing to be the top guy. You're it. You're him. You're and you all fight. It's But there's something so silly about that because we have different tasks. We have very very different tasks. So it's interesting that it says some of the say that it's beyond that it's not a that's not the way to construct to me the whole of jealousy and comparing it doesn't it's it's an ineffective system because we're designed for different tasks. We're not supposed to be him. Yeah. for him. He's equipped for the sug. Could you be inspired by another person? Most definitely. You could be inspired. But you can inspire that he's doing the best job being him. Let me do the best job being me. But to compete, we have different tasks. That's what I see in the war. I wanted to ask Gabe. We have a visitor Raarin and his son Ephraim are here all the way from Houston, Texas. So I felt like the way now is this getting exciting when a guest come you give them k you give them some food some usually they have fruit in waterberry with song I want to welcome welcome and son of fraim I want to welcome Josh it's the Josh I'm happy you're in yes I'm happy you're here I'm very very happy you're here yona it's good to have you. I want to ask Gabe and Schlommo each to do a song to welcome the newra. Is that possible, Gabe? >> What' you say? >> You got this. >> You got it, Gabe. He just played a whole volleyball tour. How old it was? >> Oh, you got it for me. No, >> he got it for you. >> You want to use this, man? >> I'll play whatever you play. Is that cool? I just don't I'll try that. >> What are we playing? Should we do Heaven on Earth? >> The guys know Heaven on Earth yet? I like it a lot. Ari, do you know yet? >> I like it a lot. As [music] you've heard it yet on >> Yona, check this out. Yi, check this out. [snorts] >> You drove Yi, you drove here. Thank you. Catch you. years ago. It's like the first time we're back in Cheerio. You have to do it. Sure, Chris. [music] Judy, you know, is heaven on earth? It's heaven on earth. >> [clears throat] [music] >> I've seen the greatest sunset, then watched my world burn in the flames. I've seen the worst [singing] of this world, and I've seen beauty in the pain. In the [singing] darkest places that the world's for. [music] I'm going to [singing] find you. I'm going to [music] find you. My story's for the [singing] ages. I'm done skipping pages. It's [music] time to find you. It's time to find you. Oh. Oh. [music] [music] Well, so I won't [singing and music] end the search. I'll stand where it hurts. And I'm [music and singing] going to find heaven on earth. I won't end [music and singing] the search. I'll dig through the dirt and I'm going to find heaven [music and singing] on earth. Oh, down [music and singing] in that dirt is heaven on earth. [music] I've seen things that I can't forgive. And still [music and singing] I stand here today talking [music] to [singing] you, my God, who I know is not afraid of [music and singing] the darkest places that the world's forsen. [singing] Oh, there I'll find you. Oh, there I'll [music] find you. my stories for the ages. I'm done skipping pages. It's time [music and singing] to find you. It's time to find you. Oh. [music] Oh. So [music and singing] I won't end the search. I'll stand where it hurts. And I'm going to fight heaven on earth. I won't end [music and singing] the search. I'll dig through the dirt and I'm going to fight heaven on earth. Oh, [music] down in the dirt is heaven on earth. So I won't end [music and singing] the search. I'll stand where it hurts. And I'm going to find heaven on earth. I won't end the search. [singing and music] I'll dig through this dirt. And I'm going [singing] to find heaven on earth. [music] Oh, down [music] in [singing] that dirt on earth. [music] [applause] Beautiful song. Thank you. Can we do here? I'm going to go say hi. >> Go say hello to him. Thank you. You want to check out this derby. [music] >> [music] [music] >> the moon [singing] of a party. God, I have faith [music] in you. You're all that I need. >> [music and singing] >> as a moon and moon of [singing] our heart. God, I [music and singing] have faith. You're all [singing] that I live [music] in the way that [singing] I [music] see. The things that you do for me, [music] [singing] the things that you do for me. Oh, [music] the way that I [singing] live in, the way [music] that I breathe, the way [singing] that I see, the things that you do for me, [music] the things [singing] that you do for me. [music] [singing] One [singing] of the [music] God I have faith [singing] in you. You're all that I [music] need. Lord of the God. [music] God, I have you. You're all that I need. [music] Oh, the way [music] that I see the things that you do, the [music] things that you do. [music] >> [singing] >> In the way that I live, in [music] the way that I breathe, and the way that I see, the [music and singing] things that you do for me, the things that [singing] you do for me, [music] the [singing] dead [music] moon, the moon of our >> [singing and music] >> me. God, I have faith [music] in you. You're [singing] all that I need. You're all that [music and singing] I need. [applause] >> Ke, I want I want to share something. I want to share something on parishes. We're not done with, but it is. And I want to share some Judah Lozi come close. I want to share something. You'll get a speech if you're far and you'll get a sharing if you're close. I want to share something like this. Lozi, I want to share like this. [snorts] Years ago, we had a guy in Yeshiva who asked the following question. He would ask this the whole year long. It's interesting. He was a person who had been hurt, gone through a lot in his life, but he had a cash on the Torah. I don't per se want to discuss his casha I want to discuss something that hits me as real from the parish in the guy Gabe would ask he was a very hurt person wonderful very smart and he would ask how can it be that nyak got no one hashem trusts nyak and tells nyak to build a tva nyak's the sadic and hashem asks nyak build a ta and nyak job. He has 120 years to get people to do cha. He doesn't get one person, his kids and their wives. This the cash is appell. Every freak, every mishuga across the world, there are all different religions and groups and crazy shittas. And you get a few crazies. Anybody can get crazies. Anybody in the world. You get five crazies, you're good to go. 10 crazies people could talk well could sell things and nayak doesn't get one nobody there's just his kids there's nobody in the world he gets this guy it was like a bomb cash the truth is a very strong cash it's a thoughtprovoking question it's like real what's the story can you imagine his frustration theam spoke to him and told him something told him the truth I'm upset at the world upset that the world's not not not living right, not living true. This kas this robbery and I can imagine frustration. I'm telling you it's true. Hashem's going to bring a mob like those. I'm telling you, I'm tell he can't get one in 120 years. You know, you talk about Kiru's statistics. People go to colleges and they're like there's certain demands of people running these colleges. What are your numbers? What are your numbers? What are your statistics? So this guy was in the yeshiva Morty I I think. Do you remember who it is? Morty. I'll tell you later on. But this guy used to be bothered by this cash. It's a very intelligent sophisticated question. And every question brings thoughts. I have I have thoughts on the question. I want to talk about something else for a few minutes with the guys that that something that I increasingly schlommo like feel and want to tap into. I want to express something like that on on this line. We certainly have a mission. We have a mission. Hashem allows a person to do a person can accomplish here. There's a line we say to fix the world to fix the world. There's something in Araminu where we come from who's gonna introduced in this parishious nayak a's the great idealists and we come from Aramino and of course we're idealistic but people get swept up in numbers in a certain way our job is to create light is to tr to choose truth our job isn't numbers it's not the numbers game that becomes a certain arrogance it's a lot about how many people oh you live there. How many were you mccarv? How many became from through how the whole numbers game to me our mission is to be a light is to be a light in our own unique way and certainly impacting others encouraging others certainly what hits me about Nyak is this sadic and this idealist nobody came with him he changed the world his ch his wife came with him his children came with him and the world comes there's there's there's a new world that comes through Nyak and from Nyak. Ultimately, Abrau comes from Nay. We don't call Nyak our father. Aram is our father. He's not the start of the Jewish people, but he's the new starter of humanity. The world continues through Nyak. I want to express about idealism that Nyak this guy's asking how can it be. He didn't get anybody. I don't know the answer. Good question. Thought provoked question. I want to express that the great saddic the tyra calls nayak is sadic and the great sadic he brings his wife and his children he can't get others and to a certain view would be some sort of failure he was a great success he started he came out of the tava hashem eventually tells them go out of the ta you and your children this hashem says and from you will bring a new world from you will be children and there's au eventually comes from nayak 10 generations later. What hits me Judah is we have such f funny measuring sticks of success and we tend like in Kira it comes out a lot but I'm not bashing or getting on Kir how many were you mccarv and in a certain way our job is were you on fire were you a light were you passionate were you were you bringing something were you about something if somebody would have counted na statistics weren't great but he saved the world the world continued. He brought his wife, he brought his children and their wives and those were the ones who from them. So it's funny the count of numbers and maybe there's even a everything's hashkah. Maybe the hashem and it's a good question. He couldn't convince anybody. Maybe there's from few who said it's about numbers. But the reality is there was hashem built through na through his children. The world's alive today. the world's thriving today. It's very very much not a sa of numbers of of how much. It's a sa that a person was sincere. I there's a big sadic I'm not going to say who the sadic is right now. I have I there's a sadic I look up to and I wonder to myself was he successful? Was his idealism? Were his dreams successful the way he wanted it to be? And in some ways it's not really a good question. He was successful. This person was successful. Him and his wife and his family are on fire. I like I like there were people in their lives we was to see their success. The story of Rabman blows my mind. The story of Rabman is crazy. Do you know could somebody when Rabman was alive how many breasts of were there? Do you know it was tiny? Do you know that Ar was tiny? There were like a few few guys few. Do you know that 65,000 people didn't really have a couple of guys it was to any eye would have said unsuccessful. It's almost unprecedented. Now you fast forward a couple of hundred years later 65,000 people are running when it's dangerous, complicated, difficult. They're running to a man. They're moved. The all of moved by his somebody would have asked while while Rabb was alive, is successful. I'm bringing out and it's complicated because we're human and we look to numbers. How big is it? How many? Oh, you're in a yeshiva. How many? But Morty, I'm embarrassed. I'm competitive. And in the yeshiva, we open the doors. We take. We don't say right overlander was upset at me and and that sadic had a good point. Lashame Shami wanted a certain number. I admit Morty I'm too proud by the numbers. I'm too proud. We have a lot of guys. Let's say there were two guys here. Two people. Now in a certain way you feel a validation the numbers. A guy does care of how many. It justifies justifies donations. We have many. It justifies your your work. If a person's sincere and serious no didn't get anybody. Anybody there at the time? This guy's asking a question. I think it's like missing the story a bit. How didn't he I hear good question. How did he get anybody? Good question. It's missing the story. So was Nyak a failure. 120 years he set up key of post didn't but 120 years was on fire. Do you know the whole world built from his fire? If you would picture a nayak and nayak lived out of town and got no one in his k he had a shul he couldn't get a minion he couldn't nobody became from through that's nayak except the whole world was saved through him our our our numbers game our judging from numbers from to me there's there's there's very childish it's very superficial and then you see people guy is a big institution and and he's not such a kishim People can do big things and not be big. And to me like the story of Nayak is sadic. He was a big sadic and this loyal hashem. Well, God himself called madic. He saved the whole world. Did he convince? Did he get was he Matsah? I mean he's the most successful. We have a world from that. You know we have a tremendous supreme. Hashem built the world through the the godless of a person who saved the world. I don't know how to say it better. The world he he's a person this of such a person. He was the sadic. Hashem built everything through. So it hits me a different thing. I realized this person like tining how did he get I can't that's it's a very strong question but a little bit it moved me from a deeper a person who in the 120 years one there were big I'm thinking of a certain god never was m started yeshiva never got anybody see it wasn't successful because yeshiva didn't he was a huge light in the world that's that's and that's that's powerful and massive the story of Nakman is such a powerful story. Could somebody look up I don't know if this is a look up how many did have in his do you know this surf in his life he had a tiny it was not a big there were a couple it's interesting is Talmudasen wrote it down and took everything and spoke to everybody as if there were hundreds of thou rebn had this belief that his rebra must be preserved it wasn't like this if there were hundreds of thousands you're writing it down. Let's let's spread this to the world. There were a couple of guys there. Today, people are learning. Were thirsting for Did any Ari did you look it up? >> Um, it says relatively small. It doesn't say exactly. >> There were a couple of guys. It was mamesh like literally somebody would have deemed his yeshiva not so successful. Didn't it didn't work. Okay. Now you look back there tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands. The world is impacted by off the charts. My my my what I want I want to express accomplishing is big. Accomplishing is big when but but the biggest thing is that a person himself's plugged in and and wants and is fighting for things. That's like the biggest thing fought for 120 years. Ultimately the whole world was saved from that. So the super fit you could ask the cash how didn't he get anybody valid question you can you could but I want to say that anybody there would say wow this guy's no success and then he comes out of the t and hashem builds the world through him because because the idealist the effort the sincerity this this grabbing on to MS Hashem runs the world and ultimately those those people that grabbed on to MS and were passionately true Hashem will build through them and because of them will like it's at the end of we read on on it said in the end everything will be heard's going to explain things we're going to see people who others didn't deem the most successful now it's funny to give this over because I think people should be driven from for success and you're allowed to be driven to change your family your city your country I want guys to be idealistic my rebi I felt one of the things that attracted me Tim was so idealistic and I want I want to have impact I want to together with the let's like bring everybody in I want to bring all our people let's get everybody united like let's bring our family together so that you're crazy to think like that I want to say that I'm not saying it not to dream I'm actually saying that the dream and the energy is valuable deeper than you do it is that you fight for What did is for 120 years he fought for something. How the successes the success is that Hashem built the whole world because of a guy who for 120 years fought for something. If you fight for something and believe in something and that's a tremendous tremendous RAM had a wild did the catch on right away that that was Hashem runs the world but his then all of a sudden you fast forward that cynic at the time I picture the guy watching his court at his intense and somebody watching it and judge will be like okay like neb now fast forward my what do you say Now this light Hashem will build from Hashem builds and does what he does. But is light is light. That's what I want to say about what Nyak did those 120 years building a ta and saying to the world as a hashem and I believe in him at the time would look like it didn't go anywhere and in retrospect it built the whole world. That's what I want to say from this story. And I want to say that people who make big efforts towards truth and sincerity and serving Hashem you'll weigh was the man successful. I'm sure all of us have watched idealists will have our own opinions. Was he successful? Did he did he do what if he was a person who was fighting for something that are from that are good things come? Will we always see and understand at time we'll be told and know I have a belief that somebody is sincere and fights there are other you can point to in this in this realm in this type but is it's wild it's mindblowing to think to think somebody after they're long gone hundreds of years now somebody people go to their their people go to their their ke and people are finding and connecting to Hashem through the in ways that didn't exist in his lifetime is very eye opening to me. It's Noah. It's Noah. It reminds me of Saddak. This saddic who was in his 120 years couldn't have been a less successful person like we're gonna we're going to learn a lot about Arainu. Araminu has the talmud that gets away. Light is his failure. Light leaves the ish failed. People ask me in Yeshiva, what's your success rate? What's the success rate here? If Abraina was counting success rate, light is one of the guys who gets away. It didn't work. It didn't work. >> I feel like his holy >> That's a good question. That's a good question. What happened to the rest of the Light was [laughter] light was the best student. What happened? That's fair. It's fair. But Light for sure is the guy who gets away. Light moved to Stein. The opposite of Arau. Light's the one who gets away. Where does Msiah come from my friends? From light. Light is Russ comes from light. Russ comes Russ is the imal. Mashiach comes from light. If you don't think Arau's efforts had big payers, Mashiach, where did it come? Where was that? That's from Abra. Of course, it's from Abrau. So the Talma got away failure. Now in a way, Ari and I want to be honest. You take away and I struggle with this. People ask what's your success rate? So we just can't measure. You have to ask are do you think things are being successful? You have to ask that. You're forced to ask that. But I want to express at least that it's difficult to assess. I don't know what to do about it. What the person say? So everything I don't know then everybody's late and you'll say we're a great yeshiva because listen Mashiach came and it makes it complicated. My point is, and I still say you should have stats to to figure out your own success. If somebody's doing efforts, should have changed up his style. If 120 years, maybe try to get people on the table a different way. I don't know, sing songs instead. Maybe you're speaking, you should be singing. I don't like, [laughter] you know, if a guy if somebody's doing something and it's not like hitting home, it might be they should change up their style. And you're forced, we live in this world, to say what's resonating. What I'm bringing out is nayak I'm more I'm more intrigued this year. I'm like less thinking about this guy's cash. How do you get everybody on? I don't know. Good question. He did it wrong. I don't know. But I'm more thinking that those who those 120 years in vain here's a guy who set up kova that's real for 120 years with zero success. I'm not buying that. Here's a person for 120 years fought for something. She built the whole world because of those 120 years. That's what's hitting me. So the light who gets away talking Mashiah ultimately comes from that. I think there's a tremendous tremendous in this fight for things. It works. It doesn't work. It work because you fought for it. Fight for things. Battle for things. Stand up for things. Stand up for things. And that that's your job. I think to myself, if anybody knows about Germany, the Germany Rev Hersh was part of, he eventually seceded. He moved away. There were many families and Rev Hersh moved with a few families and you could picture I I think a lot I I happen to like his and I think about Rev Hersh's life. Was he successful? He was successful because he fought for something. He battled for something. It's very very Welcome home. Welcome home. Welcome home. Welcome home. Great to see you. I want to I want to encourage idealism but I want to express like stop with the numbers and you'll you'll have pressures like that but people go to they go to campus k and people keep your stats and you're you're sort of your funding runs dry you can't show us the hard evidence your success let's say you have two kof people and one guy that draws in all the numbers but he's not he's partying. He's not and another person is a crazy light a big light and for some reason it's not bringing in but he's a big light. It's much deeper the light's that professional who didn't bring them in and and yet the world is built from yet the world's built from that's what I want to share with the I actually I hope it increases idealism not decreases it just says don't don't be deterred by apparent failure it's not working now of course should a guy try to adjust to make it connect to people but of course but the fact that he's a light and believing and bringing something and an that's very very very very powerful ubi Jeremiah collects is is a person who's aware of a lot of sadikim a lot of gum he's writing about I shouldn't say that the whole story but he he collects and does history he does he checks out about sadikim around America you think about sadikim who lived in interesting places you say what's left there were they successful uccessful. What happened? The community is dead. It's funny. We We're in Waterbury, Connecticut. And here we have a beautiful city. I don't know. Rev Gifter was here from 194 1945. I don't know. Did we have gifters hashbas like later on? We don't know a lot in the in in in Hashem's but to me like a person existed and and taught was honest and was like a fire and a light who knows where hash how hashem calculates what happens from it and you know the impact of that even that there's somebody a friend of ours who's studying that is moving to me when I was driving with Ubi and he was telling me about sadikim who others forgot about I was moved here was an idealist And years later, there's a young friend of mine who's like studying this person's life and somebody would say and I I asked Ubie like a little about this like had a weigh and measure. Somebody who built the big yeshiva so everybody knows his look what he built. It's here. U found sadik and what they built is not here anymore. Their sh's not here. Their community is gone. But I agree with Ubie. That person fought for something and stood for something. And I like that there's a yid today being inspired and writing. I like that a lot. It's it's interesting if there were like stats. You'd have like this where you have like some like number one to 10, you know, like a baseball card for sadikim. You'd rate like the success of their movement. So if the guy is a yeshiva that's alive, flourishing, well, he gets a high number. You have another guy. But but that that one nayak success rate was was was at a zero. His yeshiva didn't work. But look, Hashem built through Nayak. Nayak, his wife, his children, that Hashem built the world from them. I think the I think valuing idealism and fighting for things and sincerity. I a Yid met with me this week, came to my house and he described being part of a of a school that's struggling mightily like collapsed. It's an older school and it's complicated. and describe being like feeling like in a certain way you're on the Titanic like you're on a ship so am I just wasting my efforts is there going to be a kum but I really I feel like it's a truth that idealism sincerity bringing standing up for the truth is very p is eternally powerful because somebody fought how command now again should somebody go to a place can impact more I'm not coming to pas in that I am saying that what's most valuable is the is the passion of the person that that to me is worth the most that's what I see in the nayak story what I wanted to share with the schlommo speaks we could talk about au the only reason I don't bring up a he did impact tens and tens of thousands he had the numbers now where they got to that's a discussion for itself the world is more god centric today because of au that's Pashtas. So the impact was massive of an aramino and it was probably openly massive. Now did they become what he wanted? That's that's like a fair discussion because they didn't come to mit that discussion. I was saying before you came Joshy that light gets away but ultimately light Msiah comes from light. It's like even the one that looks like this is your failed. Yeah. Don't ever underestimate or undervalue idealism and somebody teaching Tyra and learning and bringing it. That's >> the older I get, the more I value that, the more I value that than numbers and other things that are really in the realm of Hashem that are not meant for people. We I was telling the guys to look up how many how many do you think had it was like a it was like a if I dare say almost an unsuccess of a couple of wrestlers it didn't work today look at the tyra look at the draw look at the energy look so we don't we don't know we don't know ever underestimate somebody being a light >> so funny like he said we we know now he's to it's like okay now now we see it but like it's crazy to think about that he he said it to five people [laughter] it's like crazy like they're like oh yeah the reb >> the he said to a couple of guys my fire is going to burn till Msiah comes looking at I don't fire is burning now you see like five guys like lying down he didn't have it didn't work and he said to my thing's going till Msiah comes is lying down like sincere somebody's serving that's what I to me that's what's hitting most the story I thank the guys for coming we're going to continue with we're going to continue with we a little bit today the bracious I wanted to share this thought with the we'll continue thank you shalom thank you game thanks to all the guys have a great night should we do a quick minion for now do we have 10 do we have 10 who want Minion for Mina hands. Let's do a minion right now.